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I have a plain vanilla Centos source (not 100% sure where we got it from), but I can't seem to get a build that installs correctly. I tried the method described at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel, but rpm doesn't like the output file, and even if I install it with -F, nothing seems to happen - no new kernel, now initrd, nothing. When I tried following the directions in the

..../.libs/libdbus-gtool.a -L/lib64 ./.libs/libdbus-glib-1.so -ldbus-1 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 /usr/lib/libexpat.so -lnsl /usr/lib/libexpat.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [dbus-binding-tool] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/mhr/Download/dbus-glib-0.74/dbus' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mhr/Download/dbus-glib-0.74/dbus' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mhr/Download/dbus-glib-0.74/dbus' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving dir...

I have attempted to update with yum over the last 27 hours, and all I get is this: [mhr at mhrichter ~]$ sudo yum update Password: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: linux.mirrors.es.net * updates: centos.g5selfstorage.com * extras: centos.mirrors.redwire.net kbs-CentOS-Extras | 951 B...

...ble to PCMCIA for a long list of reasons) and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with or recommendations for such items, particularly which ones work with Linux/CentOS. Right now I'm debating between a reasonably cheap Belkin 54G and a slightly more expensive Netgear 54G. Thanks. mhr

...onnectors on it, and a video card to match (both connectors). If I want to switch from the VGA (currently in use) to the DVI, do I need to do anything special other than switch wires? I didn't see anything in google that was helpful (though I may not have used a smashing search...). Thanks. mhr

...ve noticed recently that the latest version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader (9.3) has a really annoying tendency to stop for 30-60 seconds shortly after it starts up to read/display a PDF file. I don't see this on my Windows copies, just on CentOS. Anyone know what's up with that? Thanks. mhr

...at about 5 hours after the posting, and yum couldn't see anything. I ran yum clean all, and yum update still couldn't see anything. In general, if I wait a day, the updates load just fine, but that just feels wrong. I do have the fastestmirror plugin installed (and priorities). Thanks. mhr

...we were unable to get the characters to display properly (they showed up as the little four number boxes instead). However, on his Ubuntu system, using Firefox, they displayed just fine. Also, I just tested it in Win XP and both Seamonkey 1.1.11 and IE display it correctly. What's going on? mhr

...I left the machine alone. When I came back, it had rebooted to the DVD, so I pulled it out and rebooted again. It came up in the Windows boot selection screen (W98 or WXP), and never stopped at grub. Should I not have set it to go to Windows by default, or is this something different? Thanks. mhr

...tly because I only run it rarely, and it seems like a waste when it's running on a host that has its own, pretty effective firewall, but today I began to wonder - would it be a bad idea (or a complete waste) to use a firewall, like ZoneAlarm, on my Windows guest OS? Opinions welcome. Thanks. mhr

...hat the system can see or mount. If I lsusb, it shows up as bus 2, device 8, but there is no corresponding /dev/??? device for it, so the system can't get at it. (I tried my flash drive in the same USB port and it works fine, so it's not the hardware.) How do I get around this? Thanks. mhr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071225/a0e714d3/attachment-0002.html>

Ever since I updated to 5.3, I have been unable to convert any ps files to pdfs using the ps2pdf command. I usually get errors like this: [mhr at mhrichter forms]$ ps2pdf doe81008 ERROR: /undefinedfilename in (doe81008) Operand stack: Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push Dictionar...

...y wireless bill) and tried to print page 1. My browser properly fired up AR9, but nothing printed. I tried agian, still nothing. I saved the file, opened it with the Document Viewer and it can't print the file either. I tried opening it with GIMP, and it gets this error: Opening '/home/mhr/Documents/pdfs/vzwA0418.pdf' failed: Plug-in could not open image I couldn't find any related data in the logs (spooler logs are all empty, nothing in dmesg). I tried disabling and enabling the printer, then turning it off and on to no effect (which is not too surprising). Anyone have a...

...snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 24517 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 14281 1 snd_pcm snd_hwdep 12869 0 snd 55749 8 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep soundcore 11553 1 snd Thanks. mhr

...either - no menu, no input windows - nada. Is that normal? If not, what did I/we overlook? I was expecting a lot more, and from looking around the wiki, there should have been, but I couldn't find a good reference for what the Live CD is supposed to be able to do or let a user do. Thanks. mhr

...t, but it still would not work. One thing I noticed is that when the gdm starts up, it goes from "auto adjust" (wide screen) to "analog-d" (non-ws) - dunno what that means. Any suggestions? It's really annoying to have a wide screen and not be able to use it.... Thanks. mhr What am I missing?

...at one point the recorded message mentioned I should have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't remember one and man -k on a number of subjects was unrevealing. Can someone enlighten me (us)? Thanks. mhr

...d they all get the same error. Since k3b doesn't include a facility to add data to an already written CD or DVD unless there's a specific project for it (which I don't have 'cuz the CDs were written under Window$ or with projects I didn't keep). Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks. mhr

...defaults 0 0 /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 LABEL=/misc /misc ext3 defaults 1 2 The drive that is misbehaving is /misc. This is (more or less) my first experience with FC, so have mercy. :-) Thanks. mhr

...thing that comes to mind is that there were a lot of files with ._xxx names on the 1GB flash drive, so I'm wondering if they just overloaded the capacity of the flash drive's FAT32 root directory name space, but I thought that limit was 512 entries, not less than 171. Any ideas? Thanks. mhr