Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-29 Thread Graham Allan
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 05:56:12PM +0200, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > > Crashes were seen here, and tracked down to the presence of ffmpeg from a 3rd > party repo, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330898 It looks very likely that's the same cause here. I wonder if this is a

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-29 Thread Graham Allan
On 4/29/2016 10:37 AM, Iosif Fettich wrote: I'll just second Pat: no problem encountered so far, despite heavy use. Just in case that might make a difference (it did, occasionally, in the past): I'm having 16 GiB of memory in my desktop. Iosif Fettich Good point; I have a machine with 16GB

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-29 Thread Graham Allan
On 4/29/2016 10:18 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 04/28/2016 01:25 PM, Graham Allan wrote: After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, we're getting a handful of reports of frequent crashing. I've had people try the obvious things (disable plugins esp. flash, create a new

firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-28 Thread Graham Allan
wondering if anyone else has seen the same thing. Not seeing anything reported in bugzilla, but it's only been ~1 day. Graham -- - Graham Allan - g...@umn.edu - al...@physics.umn.edu - (612) 624-5040 School of Physics and Astronomy

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

2016-04-25 Thread Graham Allan
I have been waiting to see what will happen here. I thought I saw something which implied RHEL would support ESR 45, but it was very unclear (of course there were other changes like switch to GDK3 which made it sound like it couldn't happen). However I think the two ESR versions overlap for

Re: a year later - CERN move to Centos - what are we doing?

2016-01-13 Thread Graham Allan
ho "Installing linux to $INSTALL_DISK" | tee -a /tmp/ks.log >> /dev/tty3 echo "Installing linux to $INSTALL_DISK" >> /dev/tty1 echo "" >> /dev/tty1 # Done figuring out where to install ### #Write a file out to be included below for disk config cat << EOF > /tmp/partitions clearpart --drives=$INSTALL_DISK --initlabel --all zerombr yes part swap --recommended --ondisk=$INSTALL_DISK part /--size=25600 --ondisk=$INSTALL_DISK part /var --size=4096 --ondisk=$INSTALL_DISK part /export/scratch --size=128 --grow --ondisk=$INSTALL_DISK EOF Graham -- - Graham Allan School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota -

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL 6.1 installation anaconda failure - issue at ftp.scientificlinux.org?

2013-06-03 Thread Graham Allan
response should be produced now. Pat On 06/03/2013 12:20 PM, Graham Allan wrote: We just had to install a couple of SL 6.1 machines (due to collaboration dependency on this version) and strangely found that the installation would bomb every time with an anaconda error when trying to parse

Re: Red Hat Developer Toolset (C++11) ?

2013-05-14 Thread Graham Allan
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Re: Current production Firefox and Thunderbird on X86-64 SL 6x

2013-01-31 Thread Graham Allan
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 08:48:44AM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote: The other issue is compatibility. The university insists on certain specific web based applications, including proprietary Blackboard and a specialized Oracle PeopleSoft application called the Common Management System (CMS). Is

bonded interfaces with dhcp

2012-11-09 Thread Graham Allan
USERCTL=no PERSISTENT_DHCLIENT=yes BONDING_OPTS=miimon=80 mode=4 xmit_hash_policy=layer3+4 Has anyone else come across this issue? Graham -- - Graham Allan - I.T. Manager - al...@physics.umn.edu - (612) 624-5040 School

Re: disk recommendations

2012-10-04 Thread Graham Allan
, but it is not for a server or production environment. -- - Graham Allan - I.T. Manager - al...@physics.umn.edu - (612) 624-5040 School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota -

Re: Enough with the frivolous emails

2011-07-01 Thread Graham Allan
...) Thanks for intervening for the benefit of all ;-) Seconded on both! I was thinking I'd passed through a timewarp into the mid-90s. G. -- - Graham Allan - I.T. Manager - al...@physics.umn.edu - (612) 624-5040 School

Re: SL 6.0 Java plugin

2011-03-16 Thread Graham Allan
possible with SL6? Graham -- - Graham Allan - I.T. Manager - al...@physics.umn.edu - (612) 624-5040 School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota -

Recommended 10Gbe NICs for SL5?

2009-10-30 Thread Graham Allan
report on Chelsio from our supercomputing guys (though I believe they are running Suse). Thanks, Graham -- - Graham Allan - I.T. Manager - al...@physics.umn.edu - (612) 624-5040 School of Physics and Astronomy - University

Re: Strategies for setting up scientific packages?

2009-05-28 Thread Graham Allan
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Re: Question on connectining 4 monitors to one PC

2009-05-20 Thread Graham Allan
. Does anyone have a positive experience with the above configurations, or some other solution? Any hints are very appreciated. Thanks. Natalia. -- - Graham Allan - I.T. Manager - al...@physics.umn.edu - (612) 624-5040

Re: my ongoing battle with large filesystems

2009-03-05 Thread Graham Allan
we'd be in for some long fsck times, but it did work ok. Is it possible you could have hardware problems? Graham -- - Graham Allan - I.T. Manager School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota -

AFS and /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB

2009-03-02 Thread Graham Allan
systems, but it does appear that it was supplied by the openafs-client rpm. I wonder who maintains it? Any way to notify upstream of the change? thanks, Graham -- - Graham Allan - I.T. Manager School of Physics and Astronomy

Re: NFS default protocol change

2009-02-26 Thread Graham Allan
recently find we still had explicit rsize=8192,wsize=8192 values in our nfs mounts - probably from SL3 days! Bumping these to more current values (32768) made a huge performance difference. Graham -- - Graham Allan - I.T