Re: Longest LTS - still SL/RHEL?

The main issues were in various bits of LCG-packaged software - boost was one that I remember being mentioned. The current gcc defaults to P4 optimisations, and so many libraries are practically untested with P3 code generation - so in a sense, the issue goes even deeper than Bob mentioned

Re: Current production Firefox and Thunderbird on X86-64 SL 6x

general public releases, unless you need the features and not the security. Cheers, Sergio -- Sergio Ballestrero ATLAS TDAQ sysadmin team

Re: clients slow down due to unknown process

+++ David Fitzgerald Department of Earth Sciences Millersville University Millersville, PA 17551 Phone: 717-871-2394 -- Sergio Ballestrero - http://physics.uj.ac.za/psiwiki/Ballestrero University of Johannesburg, Physics

Re: serious bug in boot sequence when fsck is required

On 31 Jan 2012, at 16:59, Yasha Karant wrote: On 01/30/2012 11:28 PM, Sergio Ballestrero wrote: For the next time (because there's always one ;-) ), you can use init=/bin/bash as a boot option, it will completely skip the standard init and therefore the root password request. I do not like

Re: serious bug in boot sequence when fsck is required

-auth ? Cheers, Sergio -- Sergio Ballestrero - http://physics.uj.ac.za/psiwiki/Ballestrero University of Johannesburg, Physics Department ATLAS TDAQ sysadmin group smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: PXE boot is an infinite reinstall

/ Fermilab Computing Division, Scientific Computing Facilities, Grid Facilities Department, FermiGrid Services Group, Group Leader. Lead of FermiCloud project. -- Sergio Ballestrero - http://physics.uj.ac.za/psiwiki/Ballestrero University of Johannesburg, Physics Department ATLAS TDAQ

Re: Odd NFS Locking issues

, Kelsey Cummings wrote: Turns out this is most likely caused by a known (and long since fixed) NetApp bug. -- Sergio Ballestrero - http://physics.uj.ac.za/psiwiki/Ballestrero University of Johannesburg, Physics Department ATLAS TDAQ sysadmin group - Office:75282 OnCall:164851

Re: SL vs. RPMForge repo

the yum-protectbase and/or yum-priorities plugins to prevent external repos from overriding the core OS ones. Cheers, Sergio -- Sergio Ballestrero - http://physics.uj.ac.za/psiwiki/Ballestrero University of Johannesburg, Physics Department ATLAS TDAQ sysadmin group - Office:75282 OnCall

Re: Nvidia woes...

(often running off a custom livecd based on Urs' scripts). What card/config/drivers are you running? Cheers, Mark Sergio Ballestrero wrote: Hello Mark, we are having problems with X11 slowly leaking memory, which then leads to a system crash. Do you see anything similar? My attempts

debugging a slow memory leak of Xorg

workarounds / mitigations in the applications, if the Xorg bug can't be pinned down or is untreatable. Any help or suggestion of tools or procedures that may help us debug this issue would be most welcome. Thanks, and cheers, Sergio -- Sergio Ballestrero - http://physics.uj.ac.za/psiwiki