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...dd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sdd: assuming drive cache: write through sdd: sdd1 sd 54:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdd sd 54:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete And here's the tail end of /var/log/messages: Jun 9 14:42:33 mhrichter kernel: usb 1-10: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 68 Jun 9 14:42:33 mhrichter kernel: usb 1-10: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jun 9 14:42:33 mhrichter kernel: scsi53 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jun 9 14:42:38 mhrichter kernel: Vendor: SanDisk Mo...

I decided, after the last discussion of smartd and S.M.A.R.T. disks, to take a look in my /var/log/messages, and I'm seeing fair bit of this: Sep 10 20:11:23 mhrichter smartd[3361]: Device: /dev/sda, 4294967295 Offline uncorrectable sectors Sep 10 20:41:23 mhrichter smartd[3361]: Device: /dev/hdb, 21 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Sep 10 20:41:24 mhrichter smartd[3361]: Device: /dev/sda, 4294967295 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Sep 10 20:41:24 mh...

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 00:00 bas...

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 Dictionary stack: -...

Well, I have had to tweak this it a little, bit it finally worked fine. Initlally, the arial.ttf could not be found, so that I had to force the use of courier regular I'm using the standard default Treeflower theme. The following does toe job: cd /usr/share/gdm/themes/TreeFlower/background.png \ /usr/share/gdm/themes/TreeFlower/background-original.png gedit /etc/gdm/Init/Default Insert the

Here's what I get - no idea what to fix or how - help needed: [mhr at mhrichter ~]$ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual visual x...

...#39;s instructions (with one minor modification I had to add because the base driver without the CUPS installation did not work. Every so often, which actually appears to be every time the printer goes into power-saver mode, when I try to print something, I get this response in lpstat -t: [mhr at mhrichter ~]$ lpstat -t scheduler is running no system default destination device for HL2140: usb://Brother/HL-2140 series device for HPOJ4315: hp:/usb/Officejet_4300_series?serial=CN7AJH318W04GQ HL2140 accepting requests since Sun 23 Nov 2008 02:38:56 PM PST HPOJ4315 accepting requests since Sun 07 Sep 2008...

...:58:28 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.4.el5.nx.nx/modules.dep: No such file or directory ".nx.nx"????? The kernel rpm is this: -rw-r--r-- 1 mhr users 15318350 May 29 03:34 kernel-2.6.18-8.1.4.el5.nx.x86_64.rpm and the running version is this: Linux mhrichter 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5.nx.nx #1 SMP Tue May 29 03:11:28 PDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I got around this by creating a symlink: drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 May 29 08:31 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5.nx/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 May 29 10:56 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5.nx.nx -> 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5.nx/ My question...

This is what nvidia-settings gave me on the terminal window before it brought up its own (useless) window - anyone know what this means (or is it all related back to the other thread I posted on screensaver problems)? [mhr at mhrichter ~]$ nvidia-settings ERROR: NV-CONTROL extension not found on this Display. ERROR: Unable to determine number of NVIDIA GPUs on ':0.0'. ERROR: Unable to determine number of NVIDIA Frame Lock Devices on ': 0.0'. ERROR: Unable to determine number of NVIDIA VCSCs on ':0.0'...

...y/Version Check Utility ver. 2.1 Copyright (c) 2003-6 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. Basic system info... --> Linux mhrichter 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.nx #1 SMP Wed Oct 24 16:35:26 PDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Currently installed version... --> 1.6.7 Checking Python version... --> Version 2.4.3 installed. --> OK Checking for user interface dependencies... Checking for SIP... --> OK Checking for PyQt......

...ed for it. Now, this is not entirely unusual. I know there's a .mov on the camera, two actually, so I tried putting the SD card in a card reader and plugged that in. Nothing. No "disk" was mounted, which is what normally happens when I do that. I ran lsusb, and got this: [mhr at mhrichter ~]$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 072: ID 0aec:3260 Neodio Technologies Corp. 7-in-1 Card Reader Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 009: ID 03f0:0205 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3300c Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04f9:0033 Brother Industries, Ltd That looks normal, but n...

...CentOS 5 x86_64 pidgin ? Update > ? ? ?(Karanbir Singh) > ? 3. CESA-2009:1061 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 freetype Update > ? ? ?(Karanbir Singh) > ? 4. CESA-2009:1061 Important CentOS 5 i386 freetype ? Update > ? ? ?(Karanbir Singh) Just received the above. Ran yum update: [mhr at mhrichter ~]$ sudo yum update Password: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.cogentcloud.com * updates: mirrors.versaweb.com * extras: mirrors.easynews.com kbs-CentOS-Extras | 951 B 00:00 base...

I'm starting a new thread on this because there are other failures I'd like to bring up, not _necessarily_ directly related to CentOS, but they all happen to me here. FTR: Linux mhrichter 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 7 10:35:59 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (AMD 64x2 7750, 2.7GHz, 2GB memory, 900+GB disk, etc.) I had a meeting to go to last night, so before I left, I rebooted. When I returned, as I expected, my USB flash drives were all properly recognized (i.e., th...