Displaying 20 results from an estimated 5000 matches similar to: "Another CentOS 5 oddity: reboot and the X server fails to come up"
2007 Apr 18
1
Screensaver flashing instead of normal function
I rebooted my machine this morning and now instead of running normally, my
GLMatrix screen saver flashes as it repaints the screen, more and more
noticeably as the screen fills up with glyphs. I didn't change ANYTHING and
this was not happening before the boot.
Anyone have any ideas why this might be?
Thanks.
Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer
DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com)
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2007 May 02
4
Good things about CentOS 5; problem with flash in seamonkey
I'd like to point out that overall I am quite pleased with CentOS 5,
although I am having more fun with it than I did with 4.4 and I knew
less about CentOS then (duh).
Most things seem to work fine, including a relatively smooth
installation from the DVD image I downloaded, although the number of
screensavers I can see (and this could be related to the ATI/dual head
problem) is pathetically
2007 Apr 24
2
Strange content in the kernel dmesg traces
I am experimenting with the kernel (as some of you may know), and I
have added a whole slew of traces in some relatively sensitive code in
the lower levels of the page cache and i/o functions. Most of this
tracing not only works but is highly revealing as to what the kernel
is doing and why.
However, I am now getting this odd content in the trace log (dmesg),
and I cannot figure out what it is
2007 May 19
3
AcroRead failing miserably in CentOS 5.0
I could swear that this was working just last week, but now when I run
the Adobe Acrobat reader, it hangs. If I run it "directly"
(/usr/bin/acroread) with -DEBUG as the first argument, I get an
infinite loop of:
expr: syntax error
I tried removing and reinstalling it, but no change.
Any ideas?
--
Mark Hull-Richter
DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com)
85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso
2007 May 04
1
MPlayer doesn't seem to work right in CentOS 5
I could be mixed up here, but I have mplayer working perfectly at home
in CentOS 4.4, but I just built it here at work for CentOS 5.0 and it
doesn't produce any sound.
My h/w:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Dell Precision 390
Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz
2Gb RAM
The sound from Adobe/Macromedia flash player works fine (in
2007 Apr 18
1
No sound from Adobe flash player 9.0.31 on CentOS 4.4 x86_64
I have the Adobe (Macromedia) flash player installed on my CentOS 4.4 x86_64
system, but when I try to play a flash movie in SeaMonkey (or Firefox -
doesn't matter) I get no sound. I'm using the nspluginwrapper 0.9.91.4 to
make it work at all, but there's no sound.
All my other sound devices/players work just fine, even my Windows guest on
VMWare Server.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Yes,
2007 Apr 25
1
Evolution problem - not sending/receiving any more
Not at all clear on what happened. I haven't downloaded my mail from
gmail into Evolution for a couple of days, and today I changed my
gmail password. Even though I told Evolution to forget my passwords
and had to reenter them, I am unable to receive any email from the
server. I get a quick "retrieving Pop summary" and then the window
vanishes and nothing gets downloaded.
When I
2007 Apr 25
2
Strange content in the kernel dmesg traces [SOLVED]
On 4/25/07, Michael D. Kralka <michael.kralka at kvs.com> wrote:
>
> I am going to regret answering this, because it is not the right place
> for such questions. However...
True, but thank you for the post.
> I suspect you are misusing printk and the KERN_XXX prefixes (KERN_DEBUG,
> KERN_ERR, KERN_INFO, etc.) defined in include/linux/kernel.h. Try
> dropping the comma
2007 Apr 02
2
Missing samba binaries
I went to enable samba on my home machine, which has a largely plain vanilla
install of CentOS 4.4 Plus, and the smbd and nmbd files are missing. As you
may know, this makes it rather difficult to run samba. For some reason, the
winbindd binary is present, and rpm reports:
samba-common-3.0.10-1.4E.11
samba-client-3.0.10-1.4E.11
as present. So how do I retrieve the missing samba binaries/ Do
2007 May 29
1
Oddity with kernel built under CentOS 5.0
Yesterday I found a need to have the NTFS module support in my CentOS
5.0 at home, so I happily installed the 8.1.4 source, prepped it
(after deleting the rhel and olpc lines per Johnny's notice earlier in
this list), made the config with a ".nx" version name using make
menuconfig (copying the config from the SOURCES directory, editing it
to include the # x86_64 line and copying it
2007 May 04
4
Stumped: kernel 2.6.18-8 source doesn't build???
I installed the kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.src.rpm today and went to build
it, but it fails with this error:
$ rpmbuild -bp --target=`uname -m` kernel-2.6.spec
Building target platforms: x86_64
Building for target x86_64
error: Failed build dependencies:
unifdef is needed by kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.x86_64
I double checked and this appears to be the latest kernel source rpm
on centos/5.0/os/SRPMS.
2007 May 19
3
Error building kernel for CentOS 5.0
I thought I had all the tools I needed for this, but it seems
something is missing. When I build the 2.6.18-8.1.3 kernel from
source, I get this error:
extracting debug info from
/var/tmp/kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.trace-root/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.el5.trace-x86_64/scripts/conmakehash
extracting debug info from
2007 May 23
1
Topic filtering on this list
Someone suggested in an earlier thread about possibly splitting this
list (by release or some other topical divide), and it was suggested
that people use list filters to extract the topics (release 5.0 was
the one mentioned) of interest.
I may have gone to the wrong place, but I did go to the mailing list
subscription control page for mine, and there are no topics defined on
which one may filter.
2007 May 28
1
App for burning CD from MP3s
I would like to be able to make an audio CD directly from some mp3
files I have. I know that isn't the best way due to the lossy nature
of the MP3 format, but that's ok for this purpose.
K3b is supposed to be able to do this, but I got an unsupported file
type error when I tried this. I installed the python-mad decoder that
is listed in the k3b document, but I don't see how to get
2007 May 04
4
CentOS 5 and the nvidia driver
Has anyone with an nvidia video card had issues with CentOS 5 so far?
I've been holding off on installing 5 at home because of the trouble
I've been having with my video here at work, but here I have that
lovely ATI card and there I have a geFORCE 7100gs and am, so far,
successfully using the nvidia driver with CentOS 4.4 without
significant problems.
Just wondering....
--
Mark
2007 Apr 12
7
Looking for a good disk exerciser
I recently added a Seagate 400Gb SATA drive to my system, and it has been
behaving strangely since I put it in. for one thing, the BIOS S.M.A.R.T.
came up with a warning the last time I booted with it enabled, saying that I
should backup my data and replace the disk (!).
I still have not made any irreversible data transfers to this drive, and I
have some time yet to take it back, but I'd
2007 Apr 18
1
smartd stalls the system on reboot
I have begun to notice that the smartd stalls my machine's boot process for
as much as 2-3 minutes while it is coming up. I have the BIOS SMART
function enabled, and I removed the bad SG400GB drive from the box
yesterday, but I think this goes back farther than that.
Why does it take so long? Is the BIOS SMART involved in this (and how)?
Also, sendmail and sm-client take 30s-2m to come up
2007 Apr 15
2
Looking for a better way to build
I have been following the wiki on how to build a custom kernel, and it works
great.
Except, I am doing ongoing work with the internals of the kernel, and it is
really awkward to set up a change and then build it using the standard
methodology (edit the file to change, diff it against the original to make a
patch file, rebuild the whole thing).
Isn't there a way (and what is it) to play
2007 Apr 30
1
Strange behavior in X, esp. VMWare Windows
Last Thursday, for some reason (possibly a power failure), my work
desktop had a different video configuration than when I left Wednesday
evening. I have two 17" flat panels configured as a two-head wide
(side-by-side) single display. When I arrived on Thu, I had two
individual desktops instead, the resolution was down to 800x600, and
so on. The monitor type had been reset to generic
2007 Mar 16
2
Changing from NTFS to ext3
I want to convert all my NTFS partitions to ext3 since I'm no longer
running Windows, at least on my main machine at home. I'm planning to
tar the NTFS partitions to an existing ext3, reformat the partition as
ext3 and untar it back.
What is the best way to accomplish step two of this - reformatting the
partition? I've only done this so far during the installation phase,
and that