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I had the electricity go out the other day. When my Centos 4.3 workstation came up, I said yes when it got to the prompt "Unclean shutdown, force filesystem check?" prompt. It ground away for awhile and then said something about a bad superblock. Yikes! I thought, that's a bad sign. After a reboot, I got nothing but a grub> prompt. I tried booting into rescue mode using the

I know there are a million ways to skin a cat, but we must have 1,000,001 discussed in the archives already. I guess folks don't know about "search". So, I'm hoping that the pending FAQ might have mention of one or more of the *excellent* threads resident in the archives regarding backup? And just so this post is not a total waste, I'll mention that cpio can be your friend

Got three emails from Brian Trudeau <brian.trudeau at eastek-intl.com> to my mbox address saying With a subject of re: xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxx Re: [CentOS] How to add System V to CentOS? Says thanks for submitting a ticket to support and gives three tickets 2DE-0B7CC3E3-050B, 34B-0B7CC3E2-829E, 1B5-0B7CC3E3-CB12 Since I had nothing to do with this, wanted to get it back to the list so that

This sounds like a necessary sanity check for raising teen-agers. Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner at gai-tronics.com (610)796-5838 Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner at gai-tronics.com (610)796-5838 >>> BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com 11/07/05 04:23PM >>> Folks, If the reward is nothing more than the egotistical satisfaction of telling that SOB where to get off let the damn issue slide. If the reward seems minimal or unlikely to materialize at all, let the damn issue slide. If the adverse r...

After updating to centos 4.3, I notice a failure in terminating irqbalance whenever i shutdown the system. Checking the services after the system reboot i see the error in irqbalance: "irqbalance dead but subsys locked" Can anyone tell me what irqbalance is and if it safe to disable it ? Why i dont see it in centos 4.2? Thanks in advance. Thai

Mem: 2075040k total, 1331452k used, 743588k free, 50896k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 1191532k cached SunFire X2100 running Centos 4.3. Linux maytag1.texoma.net 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL #1 Fri Jul 7 19:24:57 CDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux rgds/ldv

My former primary boot disk had some bad spots appear awhile back. Damage, per rpm --verify, seems to be predominately in loss of reference files in /usr/share/doc and such as that. Being the type that wastes my own time before wasting that of others, I did a semi-careful perusal of the rpm man pages. Thought the --files or some such might offer a way ought. IIUC, nope! Seems that I can't

Howdy, I'd like to play with Xen on top of a Centos 4.3 installation. I've been googling, but haven't found a nice comprehensive set of notes to get me started. I've looked at the XenSource site, a wiki site that tells you how to get CentOS working in a Xen shell (or whatever it's called). So, for a Xen newbie, does anyone have have any pointeds to notes, documentation,

Two things have been weighing on my mind regarding security issues. The first is that when I downloaded the CentOS 4.1 ISO images, I could not get the sums to match even using different downloads from different mirrors. I decided that that I was doing something wrong and decided to trust the images. So far no regrets. But I am concerned that I get it right the next time. I thought I had read

Me again. The ASUS P5N32-SLI motherboard in my new machine has dual NICs but CentOS has only detected one of them. I've tried rebooting with the network plugged in only to the second one, but kudzu still doesn't find it. Any suggestions?

Trying yum update for the latest announcements. Part of the problem I experienced last week appears again: lame library DSA key is unavailable. I had tried to resolve this last week, to no avail. Tried again this week and found a French site with the key ID, but for libmad. Anyone can give me the proper instructions so this works? TIA Bill Here is a snipped part of the yum log.

Folks, I *suggest* that little or no reply to this is warranted. It's just the statements of an old fart trying to make a (slightly) better environment for all of us. These thoughts are offered for consideration and use as you see fit. For some, "Hey, that'll work for me too" is the hoped for result. No discussion is intended or warranted, IMO. If you recognize yourself in

Hello, Is anyone else having problems with the ssh session output stalling when ssh'd to another system and the command is running via sudo and a pager is being used (e.g., more)? Too highly reproducible :( to date, all known occurrences have involved Centos 4.3 servers; makes no difference whether client is RHEL WS 4.3, Centos 4.3 or FC 5 or WinDoze. Makes no difference if terminal

Recently (and for ages, I'm sure) folks have suffered partition destruction and had to try and recover. In the recent thread, the victim eventually had to resort to Google and fond some package that I can not remember now. Well, I was perusing my YumInfo.lst.05, for general info, and I discovered this (potential) little gem. Thought I would pass it on and make it "more googleable"

For those who haven't seen my several previous postings about problems with this (now not quite so) new PC, I have an ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard. The boot drive and primary filesystems are on an SATA disk and I'm having no problem with that. However, I recently plugged in a couple of IDE drives salvaged from my old PCs and I'm running into trouble with one of those. The drive

Hi, I recently installed centos for the first time and I like it! Also, I just started working with lvm. The following warnings are genertated whenever I run one of lvm commands on the external usb disk (MyBook by Western Digital). * What could be the source for those messages? * Should I worry about them (writing into the created LV's seems to work)? * If yes, how to fix them? [root

Tried update on wine (7/9/2009, appx 20:15 EDT). Needed wine-core added to my includepkgs. Did and looked like it would go until this. --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/xmessage is needed by package wine-core [root at wlmlfs08 etc]# yum provides xmessage Loading "protectbase" plugin Loading "fastestmirror" plugin

Got part 1 - xx of back up working, so figured it's a good time to look for stuff to jettison... casually of course. Like paperwork, documentation, ... it's low on the priority list with GB so cheap these days. Anyway, 42M in /var/spool/up2date. Headers and such. I use only yum after my first month or so of CentOS. Can I dump that and similar non- config stuff? Or does it have some

Installed today, light use in and out. All looks normal ATM. CentOS 4.3 current (but 1 kernel version to install as of today). AMD Athlon 2200XP using i686 versions. I'm not a heavy user of it. <OT> Waiting to see if I like it better than Evolution or not. Unfortunately, the more it looks like MS Windows product, the less attractive I find it. I'll probably end up blowing all this

Quick search in bout "man yum" and "man rpm" shows how to find what package X depends upon, but not what depends upon package X. Of course, we could get a deplist for everything but I'm *guessing* that take more overhead and grep too. "yum remove" tells us. Then we just have to remember to say "No, don't remove". Am I missing something... like I