CentOS

Do you need to install the RAID drivers from the HP PSP pack? We run CentOS on HP Proliant servers and it generally seems to be fine once it's installed.

I believe we do install those drivers but I don't know whether that's during the OS installation or afterwards.

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gman88 wrote:
Anyway - should there be a folder at /var/log called conman - and one called conman.old?[/quote]

Yes.

Or, at least, it's on every CentOS machine that I've looked at. And it's empty on all of them.

BTW, I think I may finally have resolved this: at the weekend even yum refused to update complaining about xulrunner being incompatible with Firefox versions before 3.6. Which I thought was a bit strange as I have 3.6.11 installed. I then discovered that yum thought I have _nine_ different versions ...

[quote] draconisle wrote: What do you guys think?[/quote] We use an Atom-330 with 2GB of RAM as a MythTV, Zabbix, Zoneminder and file server and it works fine. However, transcoding recorded TV shows is slow enough that I'm intending to replace it with an i3 or i5 next year; I've seen idle power meas...

Yeah, I noticed that it was working at home last night, so perhaps it is just broken until you reboot again; that machine has been rebooted since the update, the other one hasn't.

Sure, I don't know how to mark it solved, but if you can then please do :).

Yeah, if it's partitioned wrong then pretty much every access will be misaligned.

Otherwise, use 4k blocks for the filesystem if it supports that option; if it's partitioned to start on a 4k boundary and it uses 4k blocks, you should get the best possible performance out of the system.

Fortunately Ubuntu has a fix, so if anyone else uses fglrx you'll need to manually edit the source until ATI release a new version: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/642518/comments/14 You'll need to extract the relevant part of the Ubuntu patch and apply it to kcl_ioctl...

Yeah, my home system is broken now: the only updates it received were the bzip libs and new kernel and I verified that it was working before I did the update. $ gnome-screensaver-command lock gnome-screensaver-Message: Screensaver is not running! $ gnome-screensaver $ gnome-screensaver-command --loc...

Ah, yes, fglrx is indeed completely broken by this kernel fix:

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25485

A method which wasn't previously marked as GPL is now marked as GPL so fglrx can't compile.