gmane.linux.centos.general

Changing disk UUID after cloning

Glenn Eychaner — 2013-05-22T19:58:54

So, I have a CentOS 6 system, and I want to make several clones of it.  I'm using Clonezilla to clone the drives; that's no problem.  But the drive UUIDs are driving me up the wall. After cloning, the two drives have the same UUID, but I'd like each clone to have different UUIDs so there's no possibility of a conflict when I am running diagnostics with two drives installed, etc. But when I change the UUID of the /boot or / partition (even if I update /etc/fstab), the system won't boot; it GRUBs OK (after I use recovery mode to rerun grub-install), but never gets to the 'Welcome to CentOS " message.  Do I need to "rebless" vmlinuz or initrd or initramfs in the /boot partition if I change the drive UUID?

Or should I just ignore UUID and go back to using labels in /etc/fstab (which is what I did in CentOS 5)?

Thanks,
-G.
--
Glenn Eychaner (geychaner-MeXw3tIIDIE< at >public.gmane.org)
Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory

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2013-05-22T12:00:04

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Today's Topics:

   1. CESA-2013:0847 Moderate CentOS 5 kernel Update (Johnny Hughes)
   2. CEBA-2013:0846  CentOS 5 xen Update (Johnny Hughes)
   3. CEEA-2013:0852  CentOS 5 rgmanager Update (Johnny Hughes)


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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2013:0847 Moderate

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0847.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently 
syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) 

i386:
ab5044367344e995cb1eae8cfae59c2b6df68a8366ab6830b1b7fff6311de88e  kernel-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
098b89256fe94e488bc11c7d7d5c9c633f26e6ce2f556027cb6a4c09d83c6b1a  kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
07934a3d05a145d04f3174247f261ec83865876335ec30735b690a16d2155ffc  kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
9844fb6c5aa44ab6c81d364f5297d0a79312be417eaff79e14fc857b198c00c6  kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
c677268f2a1d2eb32508693ccef0813e236b12909e8b32a785ccb472d53740e0  kernel-doc-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.noarch.rpm
de801934133ee709e3c513299db6f9e5876767e6a00ac55928ecad7d9762fdcd  kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.i386.rpm
fe04425d4d7c8314ab42b7601be855c02d79a94dbeb5badce6c701acc35c11e6  kernel-PAE-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
ef9181b7ff77bce3f1bec28a5e37360b8e64932f44531bc66c83216699e7e7e6  kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
765cf57dab52afb57f18bb84cc354f11ae3fa264b9b157bf84914cacb6db2b83  kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
347a8b9e89eea05d6b53e1b30fa5569593d62282c16561aff945e1604c7e4465  kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.i686.rpm

x86_64:
02a6c7c2f002543eb61596fc3b16a3cb4a8a9d97218adb4caa8f2482fa062a94  kernel-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
4d0acfe18f15a26f2d32274a03e2daee04c7cd14043de85348c3e50cc513b5b8  kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
750bd839ca73cf262309eec0a34b82a2e14e2a5a64f1ad6d67eea47a8b8c95de  kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
1a2351ac39b3080b13e0904b6de03e4daa604f428ffdd038ff53402531977e30  kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
c677268f2a1d2eb32508693ccef0813e236b12909e8b32a785ccb472d53740e0  kernel-doc-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.noarch.rpm
0e84f4daf0c476e555c6ebf1ff261bd44c5e72a5bbe75fe5f574abb3376f7de4  kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
2df8bbdbb154d41d699bfec546d64d4ce80fddee4800657cd4c7d981f2519bc0  kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
96add8d6aeaa2c3cfc8fa2ea93b8ced13230353fbef3025e850d7e3858e704c3  kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm

Source:
79f0fd50d589af4bc5772082dfd03ac7a6f1e1954f930c8c18583a84c9afdd56  kernel-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.src.rpm

SuperMicro with LSI MegaRaid with Centos 6.0

Gregory P. Ennis — 2013-05-21T17:54:17

Everyone,

I am trying to install a Centos 6.0 system on a SuperMicro with an LSI
MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 controller.  

I had originally tried to install 6.4, but the 6.4 install DVD does not
boot with this configuration.  
See :
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5377

Fortunately, the 6.0 install DVD worked fine until it failed to identify
the hard disc controller.  I checked the lsi.com site which had a driver
for RH 3 and RH4, but not 5 and not 6.  

The interesting thing about this machine is that I had Centos 5.0
installed without difficulty (that over time upgraded to 5.9)

Does anyone have any idea of a driver I could use to get Centos 6.0 up
and running.

Thanks!!!!

Greg Ennis

semi-OT: flashing the BIOS on an HP dl580 GT, afterward

2013-05-21T15:41:16

When last we saw our hero, er, sysadmin, he'd found that the "noarch" BIOS
update was, in fact, a self-extracting .exe file, and he'd extracted it.
Finally getting the ok to take the system down, the following hilarity
(for small values of hilarity) ensued.

First, booting off unetbootin to freedos was fine... except it was try to
guess which version - freedos + emm386 + himem, no himem, live CD only,
or, finally, "no drivers loaded", which works. It gags on something orders
of magnitude larger than it was written for, y'know.

Then I discover that the builtin type command does *not* have /p, and
there's no more command, and I should have read the longer files before I
started this. Fun with <ctrl-s> ensues.

Finally, I find what are actually DOS config.sys files, with different
extensions, and read them - they're one-liners, and find out how to run
the rompaq.exe that runs the utility to flash the drives, and run it. And
again. And again. And *finally* get the reason it's failing, and (to save
the original name) copied the actual data from an 8.3 name into 7 char,
which the utility demands: *exactly* seven chars, no more, no less.

And unlike the Dell utility, which give you lots of warm fuzzies
("collecting data", "this is for this hardware, this is newer, do you want
to update?"), this just does it. Fortunately, this HBS contains a backup
ROM, just in case....

And a three-finger kill later, it's up. And I put the memory boards back
in, so we'll see if the BIOS update fixed the memory problems (remember
them? this song's about them)....

        mark

CentOS Dojo and Barbecue - Aldershot, UK on 12th July 2013

Karanbir Singh — 2013-05-21T15:42:04

Hi,

The next CentOS Dojo is coming to Aldershot, UK - a 45 min train ride
from London Waterloo station - on the 12th July 2013. We have a great,
and growing list of speakers already on the agenda, and another few
waiting to confirm.

And, the venue sponsors - catn.com - are going to organise a hog roast
barbecue and beet for everyone attending once the talks are done (
4pm'ish ). So another great reason to come along and say hi.

Details on the day: http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Aldershot2013
Registration URL : http://centosdojoaldershot.eventbrite.co.uk/#

I will post another followup email once we have the agenda finalised,
but if you are in the area - or can get to the area on the 12th July - I
highly recommend you come along. Its going to be a great event!

Regards,

CentOS source rpm repository setup

Toralf Lund — 2013-05-21T13:53:00

Hi.

I thought I might set up my CentOS 6 system with a source rpm repository
config, so that I'll be able to download srpm files via "yumdownloader
--source" or similar. I'm thinking that in order to this, I have to add
something like the following to the yum repos config:

[base-source]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base (SRPMS)
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/SRPMS
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

#released updates
[updates-source]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates (SRPMS)
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/SRPMS
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

The question is, what I specify as "baseurl"? The above does not
actually work, as http://mirror.centos.org/ does not have SRPMS
subdirectories, although I believe it did in the past for earlier
versions. So, does anyone know of URLs I can use instead?

Thanks,

- Toralf

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ReiserFS - status?

Rafał Radecki — 2013-05-21T12:11:31

Hi All.

What is the status of ReiserFS in CentOS at the moment? I have some servers
which use it as a loadable kernel module. I am thinking about a filesystem
for database systems and would like to know if ReiserFS will be maintained
in CentOS/Linux kernel in the future?

Best regards,
Rafal.

CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 99, Issue 9

2013-05-21T12:00:04

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Today's Topics:

   1. CEBA-2013:0835  CentOS 6 selinux-policy Update (Johnny Hughes)


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Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 21:40:06 +0000
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Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2013:0835  CentOS 6 selinux-policy
Update
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CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2013:0835 

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0835.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently 
syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) 

i386:
dfb1bb4ec17400b1c6945e2da7063190b60dfb03219dc590bfbd0fb43d985b87  selinux-policy-3.7.19-195.el6_4.5.noarch.rpm
944c8db5d659d526320a9717da0b610619bb6912c8b87097b7d6709b06786bf8  selinux-policy-doc-3.7.19-195.el6_4.5.noarch.rpm
0a28b5bc11f3c2bd554ef548dc3db8338aeb22fe4b63029361a80ad75e094d28  selinux-policy-minimum-3.7.19-195.el6_4.5.noarch.rpm
05d0bddd2d028cf23bcc3fb7a7fd47fb3660e990362b8770cec0ac4ff1a5734c  selinux-policy-mls-3.7.19-195.el6_4.5.noarch.rpm
b1fda473fea9012d18c2296692a9b0537317c7efc5ef3abbec9cb5aa3b435161  selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6_4.5.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
dfb1bb4ec17400b1c6945e2da7063190b60dfb03219dc590bfbd0fb43d985b87  selinux-policy-3.7.19-195.el6_4.5.noarch.rpm
944c8db5d659d526320a9717da0b610619bb6912c8b87097b7d6709b06786bf8  selinux-policy-doc-3.7.19-195.el6_4.5.noarch.rpm
0a28b5bc11f3c2bd554ef548dc3db8338aeb22fe4b63029361a80ad75e094d28  selinux-policy-minimum-3.7.19-195.el6_4.5.noarch.rpm
05d0bddd2d028cf23bcc3fb7a7fd47fb3660e990362b8770cec0ac4ff1a5734c  selinux-policy-mls-3.7.19-195.el6_4.5.noarch.rpm
b1fda473fea9012d18c2296692a9b0537317c7efc5ef3abbec9cb5aa3b435161  selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6_4.5.noarch.rpm

Source:
dad5529bb99ba4336b4fe96e8bfc0ac371fb6faf068bdfb11da95e2bbc2ac329  selinux-policy-3.7.19-195.el6_4.5.src.rpm

ICMPv6 Neighbour Solication request is not answered bylinux when IPv6 address is assigned via Netlink code.

Kevin Peterson — 2013-05-21T06:10:06

Hi, 

I have a process which is running as a linux service and assigns IP addresses using netlink to configued interface in linux.
For IPv4 addresses i do not see any issue with this assignment.

When i try to assign an IPv6 address, the address gets assigned successfully to the interface, but the Neighbour Solication request received for that address is not responded with and hence ping6 from a different machine doesn't work.

When i take the same netlink code and run it in a sample program the address gets assigned and the Neighbour solicitation is responded with a advertisement and hence ping6 works.

IP assigned by the program : 7000::15/32
IP on client machine from where ping6 is done : 7000::17/32.

Bot machines are connected to same Layer-2 switch.

I have flushed the ip6tables on both the machines just to rule out any firewall issues.

Thanks,
Kevin Peterson

NIC interrupts and packets per second ratio, how to calculate? There must be some way...

Alex Flex — 2013-05-21T05:07:40

Hello again guys,

Iam trying to asses the best hardware for a machine that procceses a 
high number of packets per second on its NIC. THe only way I can achieve 
this without guesses is If iam able to understand or test what the 
number of interrupts available per core and how to translate that to PPS 
capabilities.

So far ive been testing an Core I5 CPU  and was able to achieve up to 
400k packets (small syn packets) in a single core (2.8Ghz i think..) 
untill the point where 100% was reported to serve as hardware 
interrupts, yet what is the math behind this?

In any case, i find this rather low and confused as I know for a fact 
that small home routers even on gigabit have specs that detail they can 
do packet forwarding at rates up to 1.4 million pps and iam sure there 
CPU is no where as powerfull as a 2.8Ghz Core I5 core.

Any orientation is much appreciated.

Alex

How to load balance interrupts of a NIC on the PCI-MSI-edge driver in CentOS? :(

Alex Flex — 2013-05-21T04:53:22

Hello CentOS !

Iam trying to configure a Dual Core 1.6Ghz AMD E-350 machine to be able 
NIC (eth0) interrupts the most efficient way possible so that I can be 
able to handle the large number of random source packets per second. 
Currently running CentOS 6.4 2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64, i made some load 
testing with a random sourced syn flood to the NIC of this machine and 
found out according to top all the CPU interrupts are being sent to 
CPU0, thus saturating it and keeping the second core 100% idle because 
of this the amount of PPS handled is low (50k /sec). So.. below the 
output of /proc/interrupts, and also the output of the SMP affinity file 
which already contains "3" which I expect it tells the kernel to load 
balance the interrupts between the two cores and its not happening.

Questions:
a.) Could anyody please help me with a solution so that iam able to 
balance equally the interrupts on both cores?
b.) Is there anyway to actually assign more interrupts to this IRQ (25) 
or is that something that the kernel discretly takes care of?

Thanks

Alex

[root< at >node2 ~]#  cat /proc/irq/25/smp_affinity
3

Btw I also tried setting this value to "2" and "1" to get to choose 
which core it handles, and that did work but again the problem is I can 
only use one core at a time and not balance!


[root< at >node2 ~]# cat /proc/interrupts
            CPU0       CPU1
   0:        229       9838   IO-APIC-edge      timer
   1:          0          2   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
   8:          0          1   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
   9:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
  12:          0          4   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  14:          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      pata_atiixp
  15:          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      pata_atiixp
  16:          4        650   IO-APIC-fasteoi   snd_hda_intel
  17:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, 
ehci_hcd:usb2, 
ehc                                                        i_hcd:usb3
  18:          0          4   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ohci_hcd:usb4, 
ohci_hcd:usb5, 
ohc                                                        i_hcd:usb6, 
ohci_hcd:usb7
  19:          7       2754   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ahci
  24:          0         31   PCI-MSI-edge      snd_hda_intel
  25:          1        876343   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0

Where did yum install monodevelop?

Yves S. Garret — 2013-05-20T16:54:40

Hello all, I'm running CentOS 6.4.

Today I tried installing monodevelop and this is the result of the
installation:
http://bin.cakephp.org/view/258829139

Now.  When I went to my terminal and ran monodevelop... nothing.  When
I tried to locate the actual executable by running
find . -name "*monodevelop*" (kinda overkill, but figured that I'd get this
option out of the way), I couldn't find anything.  So, now, I'm scratching
my head and wondering what to do next :) .  Where did I mess up?  Am
I not starting monodevelop correctly?  If so, how should I start it?

Centos6.4 cannot reboot

muiz — 2013-05-20T02:47:07

Dear all，
   I install new version centos 6.4 64bit and everything is ok except it cannot reboot, below is the /var/messages information:


May 20 10:08:07 ravi2 smbd[1712]:   failed to retrieve printer list: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
May 20 10:22:24 ravi2 init: tty (/dev/tty1) main process (1727) killed by TERM signal
May 20 10:22:24 ravi2 init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process (1729) killed by TERM signal
May 20 10:22:24 ravi2 init: tty (/dev/tty3) main process (1731) killed by TERM signal
May 20 10:22:24 ravi2 init: tty (/dev/tty4) main process (1733) killed by TERM signal
May 20 10:22:24 ravi2 init: tty (/dev/tty5) main process (1735) killed by TERM signal
May 20 10:22:24 ravi2 init: tty (/dev/tty6) main process (1737) killed by TERM signal
May 20 10:22:25 ravi2 xinetd[1618]: Exiting...
May 20 10:22:26 ravi2 init: Disconnected from system bus
May 20 10:22:26 ravi2 auditd[1530]: The audit daemon is exiting.
May 20 10:22:26 ravi2 kernel: type=1305 audit(1369016546.436:112): audit_pid=0 old=1530 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:auditd_t:s0 res=1
May 20 10:22:26 ravi2 kernel: type=1305 audit(1369016546.539:113): audit_enabled=0 old=1 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:auditctl_t:s0 res=1
May 20 10:22:26 ravi2 kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
May 20 10:22:26 ravi2 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="5.8.10" x-pid="1546" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] exiting on signal 15.
(No message after this line until I click the Reset button)


  Do you know why?




Muiz
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TPM and secure boot

John R Pierce — 2013-05-19T20:59:46

has anyone implemented any sort of 'secure boot' using TPM 1.2 modules 
on the server boards using CentOS 6.x ?   I'm not finding much concrete 
stuff on how to setup and manage a system like this, but I've been asked 
to research it for a security application internally at my job.

our primary application for the TPM is for client authentication 
certificates in an SSL application (the machine with the TPM is an 
unmanned embedded client, that accesses webservices on a remote server 
which needs to authenticate this client).    We've already done similar 
client authentication using USB Tokens, but would like to use TPM for 
this in the future.    I think the client authentication part is pretty 
straight forward, using Trousers and so forth and PKCS#11 to access the 
keys.

Once we get the client authentication side working, we'd like to also 
secure the OS itself to prevent tampering, presumably using trusted grub 
and such?

is this typically used in conjunction with disk encryption such that the 
TPM module supplies the decryption keys?   does linux have any concept 
of signed executables, kernel, and so forth?     would replacing the RPM 
keys with keys signed by our own certificate authority such that the TPM 
would be involved in RPM authentication be practical? (yes, I know, this 
would mandate using a private yum repository, and building/signing all 
our own system components).

I realize this will greatly complicate system management, security is 
always a tightrope act.

security breach - ftp?

Philipp Duffner — 2013-05-19T15:59:17

Hi,

I'm running Plesk 11.0.9 on a Centos 5.5.
A website on that box got hacked last week and malicious code got inserted
into some html/php files. So I went to find out what happened...

I found no back doors by using rkhunter or manually searching for
suspicious files in /tmp, etc. No activity at all in the php logs at the
time of the attack. I also analysed of course the system logs (messages,
secure, ...) - nothing that I could see either - except for an entry of an
successful login to that domain via FTP just before the the modified dates
of the infected files.
I found one of the oldest infected files were in the folder of a hopelessly
outdated version of a WYSIWYG editor and decided to blame that due to
probability.

So in order to recover I did in this order...
* delete httpdocs from the website
* change the FTP password
* upgrade and update Plesk from 10.0.4 to 11.0.9
* upgrade php to php53 via plesk - this also updates mysql and phpmyadmin
* yum update everything, also made sure I have the latest version of proftp
* restore the entire website from a clean backup
* delete the WYSIWYG folder that I believed had caused the vulnerability

The next days I slept ok hoping I removed the attacker's entry point(s).

...so I thought! Today the website got hacked again - the same exploit on
the pages, meaning same attacker.
And again I can see nothing suspicious except for the successful FTP logon
just before the modification time of the infected html/php:

2013-05-18T15:01:25.195559-07:00 MyServer proftpd: Deprecated pam_stack
module called from service "proftpd"
2013-05-18T15:01:25.204731-07:00 MyServer proftpd: Deprecated pam_stack
module called from service "proftpd"
2013-05-18T15:01:25.204831-07:00 MyServer proftpd: Deprecated pam_stack
module called from service "proftpd"
2013-05-18T15:01:25.205183-07:00 MyServer proftpd:
pam_unix(proftpd:session): session opened for user WEBSITEUSER by (uid=0)
2013-05-18T15:01:25.205244-07:00 MyServer proftpd: Deprecated pam_stack
module called from service "proftpd"
2013-05-18T15:01:25.231034-07:00 MyServer proftpd[20243]: 127.0.0.1
(188.190.126.105[188.190.126.105]) - USER WEBSITEUSER: Login successful.
2013-05-18T15:04:08.095351-07:00 MyServer proftpd: Deprecated pam_stack
module called from service "proftpd"
2013-05-18T15:04:08.095379-07:00 MyServer proftpd:
pam_env(proftpd:setcred): Unable to open config file:
/etc/security/pam_env.conf: No such file or directory
2013-05-18T15:04:08.095445-07:00 MyServer proftpd: Deprecated pam_stack
module called from service "proftpd"
2013-05-18T15:04:08.095455-07:00 MyServer proftpd:
pam_succeed_if(proftpd:session): error retrieving information about user 0
2013-05-18T15:04:08.095463-07:00 MyServer proftpd:
pam_unix(proftpd:session): session closed for user WEBSITEUSER

I know for a fact it couldn't have been the website owner because I didn't
give him the new FTP password yet.

# yum list | grep proftp
psa-proftpd.i386                         1.3.4a-cos5.build110121114.13
installed
proftpd.i386                             1.3.3g-2.el5                  epel
proftpd-ldap.i386                        1.3.3g-2.el5                  epel
proftpd-mysql.i386                       1.3.3g-2.el5                  epel
proftpd-postgresql.i386                  1.3.3g-2.el5                  epel

I think I really hit a snag with this one - I have no idea where to go
forward from here.
I'd appreciate any ideas.

Thanks.

Philipp

6.4 on old PC not connecting

Beartooth — 2013-05-18T20:46:10

 On an old server (Dell PowerEdge SC1420, now without RAID) 
    I have CentOS 6.4 installed, up, and running -- but it 
    keeps failing to connect for some reason ....
   
        NetworkManager applet 0.8.1 runs blue rings around in the 
   panel for a while, then reports itself disconnected. It also 
   offers a pseudo-choice, if I right-click, between Wired 
   Connection and eth0; in fact, the cable to the router is the only 
   connection the machine has or has ever had.
   
        I've tried such things as I could find to get a 
   connection, in vain. I've tried replacing the cable.
   
        If there's a good fix, I'd like to get my wife running CentOS, 
   because it's one obvious choice for her to have against such time 
   as I'm gone. (I don't at all claim to be the Oldest Subscriber, 
   but I am at an age such that I would be irrational not to plan for such 
   contingencies.)

What new way can I try to get this beast online?

OT: Script Help

James Pifer — 2013-05-18T19:15:36

Sorry for the off topic, but don't a better resource. I'm not great at 
scripting, but need a quick script to modify a file.

I have a long file that has lines like this:

some text
some text2
CN=DATA.OU=XYZ.O=CO
some text3
some text4

And this repeats, but XYZ changes. "DATA" is always called data. (it's 
being renamed basically)

I need to change the middle line but leave the rest of the file as is 
like this:

some text
some text2
CN=XYZ_DATA.OU=XYZ.O=CO
some text3
some text4

Anyone know a quick way to do this? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
James

[Fwd: GThread-ERROR **: GThread system may only be initialized once.]

James B. Byrne — 2013-05-18T19:01:28

I posted this to the Jitsi users mailing list on Thursday last and
have received no replies.  Does anyone here have any idea of what is
causing this and how to fix it?

One other bit of information.  When I first installed Jitsi it
initially worked for a non-privileged user as I ran it from the gnome
menu of my login account.  However, at some point it seemed get
'confused' and hung.  Since then I have been unable to get it to run
as a non-privileged user.  I have removed and reinstalled it.  I have
also rebooted the host.  Nothing changes its current behaviour.

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
Subject: GThread-ERROR **: GThread system may only be initialized once.
From:    "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb-fqAF1SpE7daWxEb2tNKyrg< at >public.gmane.org>
Date:    Thu, May 16, 2013 16:54
To:      users-st2Kn3bmYpHYtjvyW6yDsg< at >public.gmane.org
----------------------------------------------------------------------

I installed jitsi-2.2 on a CentOS-6.4 x86_64 host.  When I run it as a
non-privileged user then I see this error:

$ jitsi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2209:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2209:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM
cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2209:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports
only playback stream

GThread-ERROR **: GThread system may only be initialized once.
aborting...
Aborted

and it dies.

If instead I run it as a privileged user then I see this:

$ sudo jitsi
[sudo] password for byrnejb:
ALSA lib pcm.c:2209:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2209:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM
cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2209:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports
only playback stream
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:
/usr/share/jitsi/lib/native/libglobalshortcut.so:
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found
(required by /usr/share/jitsi/lib/native/libglobalshortcut.so)
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary1(ClassLoader.java:1939)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1864)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1854)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:845)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1084)
at
net.java.sip.communicator.impl.globalshortcut.NativeKeyboardHook.<clinit>(NativeKeyboardHook.java:254)
at
net.java.sip.communicator.impl.globalshortcut.GlobalShortcutServiceImpl.<init>(GlobalShortcutServiceImpl.java:56)
at
net.java.sip.communicator.impl.globalshortcut.GlobalShortcutActivator.start(GlobalShortcutActivator.java:104)
at
org.apache.felix.framework.util.SecureAction.startActivator(SecureAction.java:629)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.activateBundle(Felix.java:1904)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.startBundle(Felix.java:1822)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.setActiveStartLevel(Felix.java:1192)
at
org.apache.felix.framework.StartLevelImpl.run(StartLevelImpl.java:266)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)


And it works.  What is going on and how do I fix it?

CentOS 5.9 LiveCD build on CentOS 6.4?

Ljubomir Ljubojevic — 2013-05-18T14:02:41

Is it possible to create CentOS 5.9 LiveCD on CentOS 6.4 system?


I am trying but getting following errors (rpmdb related):

<snip>

  Installing: cups-pdf             ################### [ 692/1011]
semodule: SELinux policy is not managed or store cannot be accessed.
rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 9
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
   Installing: bluez-utils-cups    ################### [ 693/1011]

<snip>

   Installing: firefox             ################### [ 868/1011]
warning: google-earth-stable-6.0.3.2197-0.i386: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 
Signature, key ID 7fac5991: NOKEY
   Installing: google-earth-stable ################### [ 869/1011]
rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 9
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
error: /tmp/google.sig.G17031: import failed.
[  OK  ] atd: [  OK  ]
job 1 at 2013-05-18 06:53

<snip>

   Installing: pam_passwdqc        ################### [1010/1011]
   Installing: rdist               ################### [1011/1011]
rpmdb: Program version 4.7 doesn't match environment version 0.128
error: db3 error(-30971) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database 
environment version mismatch
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30971)
error: cannot open Packages database in 
/var/tmp/imgcreate-NYkHAD/install_root/var/lib/rpm
Program version 4.7 doesn't match environment version 0.128
Program version 4.7 doesn't match environment version 0.128
umount: /var/tmp/imgcreate-NYkHAD/install_root/proc: device is busy.
         (In some cases useful info about processes that use
          the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
lazy umount succeeded on /var/tmp/imgcreate-NYkHAD/install_root//proc
umount: /var/tmp/imgcreate-NYkHAD/install_root: device is busy.
         (In some cases useful info about processes that use
          the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
Unmounting directory /var/tmp/imgcreate-NYkHAD/install_root failed, 
using lazy umount
lazy umount succeeded on /var/tmp/imgcreate-NYkHAD/install_root
loop: can't delete device /dev/loop10: Device or resource busy
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 150, in <module>
     sys.exit(main())
   File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 133, in main
     creator.install()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/imgcreate/creator.py", line 
666, in install
     ayum.runInstall()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/imgcreate/yuminst.py", line 
215, in runInstall
     ret = self.runTransaction(cb)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1596, 
in runTransaction
     self.verifyTransaction(resultobject, vTcb)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1625, 
in verifyTransaction
     if not self.rpmdb.contains(po=txmbr.po):
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 127, 
in contains
     return bool(self.searchNevra(name=name, arch=arch, epoch=epoch, 
ver=ver, rel=rel))
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py", line 1197, in 
searchNevra
     return self._search(name, epoch, ver, rel, arch)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py", line 1271, in 
_search
     mi = ts.dbMatch('name', name)
_rpm.error: rpmdb open failed

python-pandas 10

2013-05-17T15:13:41

Anyone familiar with building python modules?

We've got a user who needs pandas 10 - he says that there was a memory
handling issue that kills him in the lower releases. My counterpart (the
humanoid one <g>) says that it seems to want to build against python 2.7,
rather than the CentOS 2.6.6. Plus, of course, there are the
dependencies....

1. Are there any tarball installs?
2. Alternatively, are there any src rpms?

I haven't found any so far....

Thanks in advance.

        mark

F18: Create a USB install of CentOS 6 from iso

Mihamina Rakotomandimby — 2013-05-17T15:06:30

Hi all,

On a F18, I installed livecd-tools-18.15-1

I downloaded CenOS6.x minimal .iso and with livecd-iso-to-disk the 
resulting USB is never bootable: the computer doesnt boot on it. Tested 
on many computers.

The fact is I succeded to install CentOS on a Netbook (no CD/DVD tray), 
but I dont remember how I invoked livecd-iso-to-disk.

I tried with many combinations (/dev/sdc is the USB pendrive):

1°)
$ sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --format --force <ISO> /dev/sdc

2°)
$ sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --format --force <ISO> /dev/sdc1

3°)
- Format with VFAT on partiion #1 then
$ sudo livecd-iso-to-disk <ISO> /dev/sdc1

4°)
- Format with Ext on partiion #1 then
$ sudo livecd-iso-to-disk <ISO> /dev/sdc1

...

N°)
I dont remember what I tried, but it was many, mostly tried with CentOS 6.2

Please, if someone has a F18 + an USB drive: would you test and see if 
you succed?
If you ever succed, how did you?