CentOS

I also performed a CentOS Stream install from the DVD ISO (v 8.0.1905) and ended up with two sets of repositories. The command dnf list 'centos-release*' shows both centos-release and centos-release-stream installed, from @anaconda, and each provides a set of repositories, so this appears to be a na...

It turns out that the "6" and "17" in the log messages are IP transport protocol numbers representing TCP and UDP, respectively. The mount options did not specify a protocol (and NFS traditionally runs over UDP), so autofs was trying both TCP and UDP probes. The latter were timing out. The server wa...

All my CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 machines recently began manifesting an issue with automounting NFS filesystems exported by a storage system elsewhere in my organization. I present a fuller description elsewhere ; here I am focusing on the client side of the problem. In a nutshell, The server hostname h...

A week and a half later, and the mirrors still have only 14 src RPMs for the base packages. This is not "a slow pace," it's no movement at all. What's the deal? Surely the src RPMs exist somewhere. The aggregate size should be of the same order of magnitude as that of the binaries, and those were re...