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2007 Mar 23
7
Samba config for Windows on VMWare
I know this is a little off topic (not as usual, dammit!), but I figure
at least one of y'all can handle this one.
I have tried to configure my CentOS4.4 Plus desktop for samba sharing
with the VMWare Windows that runs on it. However, no matter what I've
done so far, I can't get the Windows to recognize this machine as a
legitimate network destination.
Here's my samba
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
2007 Jan 25
10
Problems with building a complete kernel
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
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 Feb 07
2
Problem with 2.6.11.4 kernel and e1000 driver - Correction
Actually, here is what shows up in the log, regardless of whether the
driver is built-in or loaded as a module:
Feb 5 10:16:15 sparenode1 sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
Feb 5 10:16:15 sparenode1 sysctl:
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
Feb 5 10:16:15 sparenode1 sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 0
Feb 5 10:16:15 sparenode1 sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
Feb 5 10:16:15 sparenode1
2007 Mar 16
1
Open Office on CentOS
I notice that the OO that comes with CentOS 4.4 is version 1.1.5, which
is fairly ancient. Are there any plans to update this for OO 2.2, or
2.1, or 2.0? Or is this a RH thing exclusively? In which case is
CentOS Plus likely to get a more recent version?
OO 2.0 is way better....
Mark Hull-Richter Linux Kernel Engineer
(949) 680-3082 - Office (949) 680-3001 - Fax (949)
2007 Feb 22
9
USB flash drive stopped working properly....
This past Tuesday (2/22/07) my flash drive started acting really strange
- it only worked intermittently and would disappear right after an
access or two. Yesterday it stopped working altogether - I couldn't
even access it through my WinXP-on-VMWare. I rebooted my machine, and
it worked fine after that.
Is there some time limit on how long a USB flash drive will work in
CentOS or is this a
2007 Mar 19
3
system-display-config doesn't run right
This might be a gnome problem, but....
I've noticed that, on occasion (frequently), when I try to look at or
modify my display configuration, the Applications->System
Settings->Display doesn't come up. It asks for the root password, which
I give it, and then nothing.
I ran system-config-display form the command line, but it dies thus:
[root at mhullrichter mhr]#
2007 May 02
2
Another CentOS 5 oddity: reboot and the X server fails to come up
I had to reboot my work machine today, and it came up in text mode
(!). I did an init 5, but that had no effect (wrong command?). I
killed the three gdm processes, and voila, X server mode.
Where do I look to find out what is not right here?
Thanks.
--
Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer
DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com)
85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
949-680-3082 -
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 Mar 21
2
Kernel question(s): I/O handling
I have been chasing down the way the inode and page caches are
structured and handled, but there is a mystery I have not been able to
track down yet. How does the I/O queue that dirty inodes and pages are
put into when it's time to flush them out to disk get picked up? Also,
where are the sources for the I/O schedulers? I haven't been able to
locate them yet either.
I know this
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 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 Mar 14
4
What's the best way to convert a whole set of file systems?
I am currently running a Windows XP system at home with around 100+ Mb
in use over ~400Mb of NTFS file systems. I am installing CentOS 4.4 on
it when I change out the mobo/cpu/mem/video combo I just bought. I want
to convert all the file systems to (probably) Reiserfs or maybe ext3,
but I need to do them one at a time because I only have enough transfer
space to accommodate the largest one, or
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 13
5
OT: AMD CPU actual speed....
I know this is a bit OT, but the subject of CPU speed came up here and I was
(and have been for some time) curious:
What is the actual speed of an AMD CPU? E.g., I have a Athlon 64 X2 "4200+"
but my /proc/cpuinfo shows 1005.164 MHz for the two cores.
What do those mean? Is there a reference for this (huge) discrepancy?
Also, is there a way (and what) to tell what the actuall running
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 Mar 23
1
Errors in display settings
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:
2007 Feb 28
2
How to build a debug kernel
I need to build a kernel with full debugging enabled - breakpoints, etc.
I know there's a relatively simple way to do this with rpms, but I don't
know what it is....
Help?
Thanks.