C++11, the devtools package and PUIAS

2013-01-17 Thread Jan Kundrát
Hi, I'd like to get a decent support for the C++11 language on SL6. RH ships the devtoolset [1] package for just this purpose; the PUIAS repo [2] has the RPMs. However, I am not much familiar with the PUIAS, so I would like to ask here for references -- is that a repository which is known to

Re: TESTING - kernel update for SL5

2011-05-26 Thread Jan Kundrát
On 02/22/11 21:11, Jan Kundrát wrote: On 01/20/11 18:30, Troy Dawson wrote: kernel-2.6.18-238.1.1.el5 Hi Troy, FYI -- I've now tracked this problem down to the patch linux-2.6-virt-nmi-don-t-print-nmi-stuck-messages-on-guests [1] and reported this issue on RHEL's Bugzilla [2]. The comment

Re: 2.6.39-UL1 rpms released

2011-05-26 Thread Jan Kundrát
On 05/26/11 01:48, Nathan Yehle wrote: I have rebuilt 2.6.39-UL1 using the Ultralight RPM specs to create this rpm for use with Scientific Computing Servers at MWT2.org. Hi, is that the unbreakable Linux kernel from Oracle, or some other UL thing? (I'm not familiar with Ultralight patchset, and

Re: TESTING - kernel update for SL5

2011-02-23 Thread Jan Kundrát
On 02/22/11 21:11, Jan Kundrát wrote: I'll try upgrading the dom0 to recent kernel tomorrow and keep you posted. I've updated the kernel to 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5xen and left Xen at xen-3.0.3-94.el5_4.1. Didn't help, so I just updated to the latest 5x repository, updated all packages on the physical

Re: TESTING - kernel update for SL5

2011-02-23 Thread Jan Kundrát
On 02/23/11 15:51, Troy Dawson wrote: Just because the client kernel is running 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5xen does not mean it is trying to be a xen host. It means that it is running paravirtualized. If your xen machine was setup to be a paravirtualized client, then it *has* to continue to run the

Re: TESTING - kernel update for SL5

2011-02-23 Thread Jan Kundrát
On 02/23/11 16:23, Jan Kundrát wrote: I've just updated kernel on another domU instance to the -238 I forgot to mention that when I `yum update`d that second domU, yum complained about the following: Running Transaction Installing : kernel Installing : kernel-xen WARNING: No module

replacing yum-conf-55 with yum-conf-5x

2011-02-22 Thread Jan Kundrát
Hi there, I've got a fresh install of SL5.5, and would like to set it up to use the 5x repositories, whatever they are (or, to be more precise, I want this machine to receive updates from new releases as they come, and I think that replacing yum's conf files is the way to go). The most

Re: replacing yum-conf-55 with yum-conf-5x

2011-02-22 Thread Jan Kundrát
On 02/22/11 18:00, Larry Vaden wrote: you might want to reinstall That'd be possible on this particular box, but I'd like to come up with a nice way to upgrade any existing installation, so no reinstalls. otherwise you could edit the .repo files. YMMV. That would mean that the yum-conf-*

Re: TESTING - kernel update for SL5

2011-02-22 Thread Jan Kundrát
On 01/20/11 18:30, Troy Dawson wrote: kernel-2.6.18-238.1.1.el5 Hi list, looks like I'm the only person having this problem. I've installed a SL5.5 machine today as a fully virtualized guest in a SL5.2 Xen host (kernel 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5xen). The installation went fine and the auto updates

Re: Distribution Servers Downtime - November 18, 2010

2010-11-19 Thread Jan Kundrát
Troy Dawson wrote: All distribution machines are back up and working correctly. Thank you again for your patience. Hi Troy, I got HTTP error 403 on http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/x86_64/updates/security/repodata/repomd.xml, and it looks like the listing at

issues with the kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 and its dependencies related to XFS the font server

2010-05-20 Thread Jan Kundrát
Dear list, I've hit the following issue on a 5.2 box. When trying to run `yum update kernel`, yum wants to remove quite a lot of items: [r...@iberis66 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Scientific Linux SL release 5.2 (Boron) [r...@iberis66 ~]# yum update kernel Loaded plugins: kernel-module, priorities

Re: issues with the kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 and its dependencies related to XFS the font server

2010-05-20 Thread Jan Kundrát
Jan Kundrát wrote: Will I have the XFS filesystem after the upgrade? Quick answer: yes, it's integrated into the kernel RPM. Other issues (yum willing to remove bunch of X11-related packages if the xfs RPM was installed before) still stand. Have fun, Jan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: Bind 9 DoS vulnerability

2009-07-29 Thread Jan Kundrát
Michael Mansour wrote: Is this something real and to be concerned about? Yes, it crashed our named instance running on a freshly updated SL5.2. For reference, exploit is available from the Debian bugtracker [1]. Note that the iptables snippet won't work on SL because it doesn't have the u32

/etc/alpine/pine.conf

2009-04-27 Thread Jan Kundrát
Dear list, a fresh installation of 5.3 with alpine from the SL repo doesn't provide /etc/alpine/pine.conf file, even though the file is said to be provided by that package and it was there in 5.2: [r...@samson ~]# rpm -ql alpine | grep pine.conf$ /etc/alpine/pine.conf My cfengine script relied

Re: NFS default protocol change

2009-03-05 Thread Jan Kundrát
P. Larry Nelson wrote: From what I've gleaned about the two protocols from googling, it appears that TCP has advantages on a lossy network but that's not our scenario. It also is not a stateless protocol, like UDP, so if a server crashes in the middle of a packet transmission, the client will

mysql-server on SL5.2: missing user mysql

2008-12-12 Thread Jan Kundrát
Hi Troy, immediately after installing mysql-server-5.0.45-7.el5 and calling `/etc/init.d/mysqld start`, it complains that there's no user:group mysql:mysql, which is indeed the case on a freshly installed box. This was the output of `yum install` command: Installing: mysql-server

Re: SL5.1: kpartx doesn't work with large files

2008-10-16 Thread Jan Kundrát
Troy Dawson wrote: Unless there is something critical that most people use, we usually let RedHat deal with it and push out the fix. Since they say they have already fixed it, and it will come out in the next release, expect the fix in SL 5.3. OK; considering that nobody complained so far

SL5.1: kpartx doesn't work with large files

2008-10-15 Thread Jan Kundrát
Hi folks, kpartx, a tool for extracting partitions from whole-disk images, doesn't currently work on large files. That makes it kind of useless for working with common Xen images, for example those created by virt-install. There's a bugreport in RedHat's Bugzilla [1], and I'm not sure what

adding xenblk to the list of preloaded modules inside Xenified initrd

2008-05-22 Thread Jan Kundrát
Hi, when trying to use a kernel/initrd from SL5.1 i686 Xen dom0 (right now, the /boot/initrd-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen.img and corresponding kernel) as a kernel for domU, the domU won't boot when it's set up to use /dev/xvda for root (that's how Xen exports virtual block devices to Xen). The solution

Re: adding xenblk to the list of preloaded modules inside Xenified initrd

2008-05-22 Thread Jan Kundrát
Troy Dawson wrote: We do not touch the kernel rpm's. Not at all. So the answer is no, I will not put that into the kernel rpm. (the kernel-xen rpm is built from the main kernel src rpm) Ok, that sounds reasonable. Are you trying to boot your guest machines (domU) from your host (dom0)

Re: XFs modules

2008-05-22 Thread Jan Kundrát
Troy Dawson wrote: Thanks for the reminder. They were all built and ready to be pushed out. They are going out right now ... so it will be at least a half hour before they get completely pushed out. Also, don't forget to do a yum --enablerepo=sl-contrib clean all to refresh your yum

Re: System hangs after latest (5/21-5/22) updates with LDAP

2008-05-22 Thread Jan Kundrát
Zhi-Wei Lu wrote: I am applying the latest updates to a number of systems, those with LDAP configured failed to boot at Start system message bus, those without LDAP configured booted just fine! Any suggestion? Hi, a 5.1 desktop box that is LDAPized boots fine here (using remote LDAP

Re: System hangs after latest (5/21-5/22) updates with LDAP

2008-05-22 Thread Jan Kundrát
Zhi-Wei Lu wrote: 2. Turn on ssl and add the nss_initgrous_ignoreusers line, the message bus was fine and system rebooted, but ldap query is still not working via ldaps, therefore, the latest nss_dap_253-12 breaks something. Instead of ldaps (as in LDAP over SSL), we use starttls (plaintext

Re: Problems with 4.5 TB disk array (LVM ext3)

2008-03-27 Thread Jan Kundrát
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're successfully using devices up to 7 TB with a single XFS filesystem on them, under SL4/5 (but I think we started doing this with 4.3, not 4.2). I have no hope to be able to check (xfs_repair) those should this ever become necessary though - from what I've read it

Re: XFS for SL5.1

2008-03-14 Thread Jan Kundrát
Jan Kundrát wrote: I'll mail you in a week or two about how the tests ended on desktop PCs. (This is on 32bit.) I've been running bonnie++ and iozone on an XFS partition and nothing bad happened, no funny messages in kernel log. I guess you can move these useful modules to the contrib repo

XFS for SL5.1

2008-03-04 Thread Jan Kundrát
Hi list, I'm having troubles finding XFS kernel modules for SL5.1. So far, I've tried the standard repositories (sl-contrib, sl-base, sl-security) and also atrpms and dag, but to no avail. Do we have such modules, or do I have to hack something up myself? (I've read the thread from May 2007,

Re: XFS for SL5.1

2008-03-04 Thread Jan Kundrát
Beyerle Urs wrote: I have built xfs kernel modules for SL5 (starting from a CentOS extra SRPM). We use it here at PSI - not heavily, but they should work (at least for 64bit). Hi Urs, thanks a lot. Right now, it's only for some local-storage on a desktop PC, but we'll need to migrate one SL3

Re: [5.1] Where to find kstars?

2008-03-02 Thread Jan Kundrát
Andrea wrote: does anyone know where I can find kstars? Unfortunately it's not in the repositories I have enabled (atrpms, dag, epel, flash, sl-base, sl-bugfix-52, sl-contrib, sl-security, sl-srpms). kstars belongs to kdeedu packages, so you should try to find that package. Cheers, -jkt

Re: installing 32-bit packages on a 64-bit SLC4

2008-02-29 Thread Jan Kundrát
Troy Dawson wrote: Just out of curiousity, why do you need 32 bit python on a 64 bit machine? This is for a gLite worker node where Atlas needs (used to need) a 32bit copy of Python available. Cheers, -jkt smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Missing dependecy

2008-02-23 Thread Jan Kundrát
Killian De Volder wrote: It seems however that perl(SOAP::Lite) seems to be missing from it: Hi Killian, as mentioned in the installation guide [1], you have to enable (among others) the dag repository. Also note that you're more likely to get accurate answers with regard to the gLite middleware

Re: Missing dependecy

2008-02-22 Thread Jan Kundrát
Killian De Volder wrote: (The tutorial has been written for SL4 and I am using SL51). What would be the correct method to resolve this issue please? What is the reason why you're trying to get it working on an uncertified OS? If you desperately need to set it on the SL5.1, try the tarball

issues with kernel-xen.i686 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 and xen-3.0.3-25.0.4.el5

2007-12-04 Thread Jan Kundrát
Hi, today I've upgraded my SL5 x86 box. This update looks like this in the logs: Dec 04 14:49:41 Installed: kernel-devel.i686 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 Dec 04 14:49:41 Updated: ipw3945-firmware.noarch 1.14.2-1.sl5 Dec 04 14:49:42 Updated: kernel-headers.i386 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 Dec 04 14:49:51 Installed:

Re: issues with kernel-xen.i686 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 and xen-3.0.3-25.0.4.el5

2007-12-04 Thread Jan Kundrát
Troy Dawson wrote: The options I see are to either fix the old xen to work with the new kernel, or to update the xen in SL 5.0 to match the xen in SL 5.1. Personally, after using the xen on SL 5.1, my vote it to move 5.0 up to that version of xen. It fixes *alot* of the bugs and troubles I

Re: issues with kernel-xen.i686 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 and xen-3.0.3-25.0.4.el5

2007-12-04 Thread Jan Kundrát
Troy Dawson wrote: RedHat does not do that, or at least they didn't use to do that. They are implementing something that is similiar to what we do. Thanks for explaining this. The xen in SL 5.1 is only at version 3.0.3, not 3.1. So, it's not too big of a jump. And despite RedHat's