similar to: suddenly X gives black screen with small clock cursor

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 08:49:21AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Fred Smith > <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out if the stock kernels for Centos-6 and/or Centos-7 > > have ExecShield compiled in, and if so, if it is turned on by default. > > According to what I've read, Exec Shield is enabled

Hi all! I'm running an up to date Centos-7 on my Acer Aspire One netbook. have been for, well, ever since C7 was released. Just had an event today that also happened 2 or 3 times with earlier systems installed, but I never pursued it. What happens is that suddenly while working away on the desktop the display suddenly goes black... not black as in turned off, I can see that the backlight is

I know I'm slightly OT here, asking about RHEL, but since Centos is now a part of RH, I'm hoping I won't be summarily ejected. I've seen several articles that listed Centos 6.x as vulnerable, but DID NOT LIST RHEL 6. I'd think that if Centos 6.x is vulnerable, then so would RHEL 6.x, since Centos is made from RHEL sources. Does anyone know for sure either way? thanks! --

Hi! Just did a TEST install of centos5 on an old PIII box. one of the things I wanted to see was the fancy desktop eye-candy of compiz and/or beryl. This box has a nvidia 6600 series card, and I've isntalled the Nvidia drivers (download from nvidia and run their installer). I used the software updater to install compiz (didn't show up on original install, perhaps I didn't hold my

I'm trying to figure out if the stock kernels for Centos-6 and/or Centos-7 have ExecShield compiled in, and if so, if it is turned on by default. On my local C7 box I've been looking at/for indicators without a lot of success: /usr/lib/sysctl.d/00-system.conf. does not mention ExecShield at all. /proc/sys/kernel has no entries for exec_shield no mention of execshield in any of the files

I've got a new VM installed for me by a sysadmin who apparently did a minmal install. As a result I've installed a bunch of things to try to get X going, including yum groupinstall "development and creative workstation", "Desktop platform" "mate desktop" but so far I've not found the incantation to get it to start up X at boot time. As far as I can

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:13:35PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Fred Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 02:59:29PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 08:58:54AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > >> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 01:34:30PM +0300, ????????? ???????? wrote: > >> > > >Can anyone of you provide further hints on what

I know I should go to EPEL with this, but thought to ask here in case anyone else uses Mate and may know more about it than I do. I had installed the MATE 1.12 packages from epel testing a few days ago, but since that did not include some of the devel packages, I just removed it and reinstalled all the MATE 1.10 packages from epel-7. they all installed fine, but now my desktop has a background,

Hi! this is surely a newbie question, so I should know the answer, but I'm fighting with mounting a CD such that filenames are NOT mapped to lowercase (I need to use its on-board tools for accessing files on it while mounted on Centos 6.5, and those tools assume uppercawse, since they assume the entire world runs Windoze.) but despite my best efforts, it keeps being mounted with UC-LC

I'm considering upgrading, and am trying to choose a modern motherboard that nevertheless fully works with Centos5/RHEL5. Though I'm partial to AMD processors, and would like to use one in my new configuration, that's not a requirement, if the most appropriate board happens to be intel-compatible. However, given the way ASUS is dumping LInux and crawling more firmly into bed with

Every now and then I get an alert like this one. I have no clue what this "rear" subsystem is, or why madam would be trying to write to its log file. Can anyone enlighten me? thanks in advance! ------------------------- SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/mdadm from write access on the file /var/log/rear/rear-fcshome.log.lockless. ***** Plugin restorecon (93.9 confidence) suggests

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 05:02:32PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Fred Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:13:35PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> Fred Smith wrote: > >> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 02:59:29PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 08:58:54AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > >> >> > On

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 02:52:51PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:55:26 -0400 > m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > > I've got a netbook, circe 2009. When I got it, not that I was wild about > > ubuntu, but there was specifically an ubuntu netbook remix. Well, it's a > > few years later - has anyone put CentOS (6, preferably) on a netbook, and >

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:49:43PM -0700, Devin Reade wrote: > --On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 11:07:12 PM -0500 Fred Smith > <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > > >But it isn't at all obvious how one would do a new RAID1 setup in > >Anaconda > > Don't feel bad. The abortion that is the RHEL/CentOS 7 graphical > install interface is far too

Still googling, no joy so far (though I'm not giving up yet). Can anyone point me to a resource that may help me figure out how to make the side-clicks of the scroll wheel on a logitech mouse do something useful? thanks! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,

I had a series of kernel hardware error reports today while I was away from my computer: Message from syslogd at fcshome at Aug 12 10:12:24 ... kernel:[Hardware Error]: MC2 Error: VB Data ECC or parity error. Message from syslogd at fcshome at Aug 12 10:12:24 ... kernel:[Hardware Error]: Error Status: Corrected error, no action required. Message from syslogd at fcshome at Aug 12 10:12:24 ...

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 08:27:01PM -0700, Brandon Vincent wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Fred Smith > <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > > Anyone know what I've missed (or messed) ? > > It might be an issue with a version mismatch of configuration files > and settings. > > I'd log out of the graphical environment, switch to a text

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 01:59:23PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/23/2017 01:06 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >so, the two lines saying: Key "syno-fredex" or key "syno-public" > >appear whenever I try to access one of those two filesystems. I AM NOT > >USING AUTOFS TO MANAGE THEM. > > > You're using autofs to manage /mnt, so any time that

Hi All; I've downloaded the Cisco AnyConnect tar.gz file for one of our clients, when I untar it and then run the vpn_install script in the vpnclient directory I get the below error. Thanks in advance for any help... / //# ./vpn_install// //Cisco Systems VPN Client Version 4.8.02 (0030) Linux Installer// //Copyright (C) 1998-2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.// // //By

Dr. Mikeal Hughes wrote: > Motherboard time. Netbook is probably a throw away issue. Cost more t to > repair than buy new. > >> On Jun 20, 2016, at 7:58 AM, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> >> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 01:34:30PM +0300, ????????? ???????? wrote: >>>> Can anyone of you provide further hints on what I should