Red Hat :: Changing To KDE In CentOS
Aug 25, 2010
I am trying CentOS (as a change from openSuse), I have downloaded DVD and have loaded it as a Virtual Machine. So far so good. It did a "quick" install, which leaves me with Gnome as my desktop, I am used to using KDE, so I tried to use "Add/Remove Software" to load KDE. I also want to load other software which I have as RPMs.
Two questions:
1. My VM is not connected to the internet and when I open the package manager it tries to retrieve information from on-line repositories - I have tried disabling on-line repositories. I do not want it to look on-line, so how do I get it to just look at the installation DVD?
2. Is there an easier way to swap to KDE?
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Jul 29, 2009
We just got a dedicated server from 1&1 which came with a 64-bit CentOS 5 minimal system install. Only later, we found out that it's partitioned in a strange way:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 950M 902M 0 100% /
/dev/md5 4.7G 1.1G 3.7G 22% /usr
/dev/md6 4.7G 897M 3.8G 19% /var
/dev/md7 221G 4.8M 221G 1% /home
none 998M 0 998M 0% /tmp
How can we get it re-partitioned so that all available disk space is allocated to the / directory instead of /home? Is it possible at all?
The 1&1 support is saying that this is a standard install and won't help.
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Apr 4, 2010
I am having trouble changing the resolution in my Computer,I am new to Linux and somehow, Lucky, I got this program to install, I installed it on a Dell PowerEdge 1850 with a Radeon 7000 Video card,I had another one set-Up before which gave me a resolution of 1400 x xxxxx? Was great, this one only offers 800 x 600 and some other very low resolutions, The programing allows me to change it and demands I log out, Restart x and log in again, took me a day to figure out what was "x" and how to restart it, but no response. Still the same.
In reading the Forums I see this command allot "/sbin/lspci -m" But, too bad, nobody tells exactly where to type that series of digits to get any response,
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Aug 19, 2010
I am currently using an M-Audio 7.1 PCI sound card on a headless non-GUI Centos5.5 install. MPD is running in the background for jukebox usage. The problem is, I seem to be at 100% volume output on the jukebox and I can't figure out how to change volume. Using alsaunmute to set volume sets some kind of volume on the soundcard, from what I can tell, but it's like that new volume setting is not being respected by ALSA. I can also set the volume using 'alsamixer' which also produces no noticable effect (100% is the same as 0%, as loud as could be from the PC).
I'm using the digital coax output from the soundcard for this - not the 3.5mm jack (due to stereo reasons beyond my control). Perhaps I'm not modifying the master volume? Thing is, when modify volume settings via an MPD client, such as Minion or one on my phone,�the volume setting does change in the ALSA software, but there's no audible difference. It makes me think alsa is not being used for sound control, but I'm stumped as to how to check otherwise. At least sound plays!
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Dec 21, 2010
I run KDE 3.X and for the life of it, can't figure out how to assign the "ALT+SHIFT" to switch between keyboard layouts? The default AL+SHIFT+K switches from EN to second one and after that it (obviously) doesn't work. saw a few posts [URL]....alt-shift.html), but the flag is not changing in the tray.
I also tried to go thru "Keyboard shortcuts", but for whatever reason, it doesn't want to accept the combination of "alt+shift" and expects another key ( i guess).
I'm using Centos 5.2 and the the keyboard model is "MS natural keyboard pro" with US and two Cyrillic layouts - one of them is phonetic.
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Apr 5, 2010
*Trying to change some Linux severs timezone from EDT to GMT remotely
*Unable to run "system-config-date" tool from command line
Date:
Mon Apr 5 09:31:10 EDT 2010
cat /etc/sysconfig/clock:
ZONE="America/New_York"
UTC=true
ARC=false
[code].....
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Mar 21, 2009
Once you have VLC open, select file, it only lists certain file types. Now if you go down to the bottom you can tell it to use other types (like *.*). How does one set it so one does not have to go down and change the file types every time? So that it shows all file types, all the time, by default.
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Aug 28, 2009
this seems silly but I am changing ISPs and need to change my notification email address (for here). Under User Menu -> Edit account it shows my email but does not allow me to change my email. Since I am able to post I assume I am logged in correctly. So what did I miss?
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Feb 4, 2010
How can I prevent users from changing their own password? I was surprisingly unsuccessfull in finding a solution for this on google. Lots of stuff about hardening ssh access or dealing with password aging using "chage" but nowhere could I find an answer for my question.
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May 1, 2010
am running uptodate Centos 5.4 Gnome.VLC is afterinstalled.i do have problems with Totem.some websites i visit offer streaming video.when i do start the video on those sites, a warning comes up:> Totem could not play mns://<filename>.wmva microsoft media server protocol source plugin is required to play this stream, but is not installed <when i do copy/paste the line after 'mns' to VLC media > open network VLC starts playing (which is fine in itself)as Totem refuses too to play mp4 files present on my computer (due to missing codec) (not a problem in VLC) i would like to switch to VLC Q: how can i make VLC the default player that comes up when playing videostreams?additional: how can i save a stream that VLC is playing to my own machine (for future use)?
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Feb 13, 2011
Is there a shortcut key for switching between US and Dvorak key layouts? I have both setup in preferences but don't see how change it when needed.
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Oct 15, 2009
I am running centos 5.3 with the latest bind, i have made some changes in the config and now it wont start.
Fel i named-konfigurationen:/etc/named.conf:27: unexpected end of input (last line)
My named.conf looks like this:
options { directory "/var/named/";
};
view "externt" {
match-clients { any; };
recursion no;
zone "dala.hk" {
type master;
file "dala.hk";
};
zone "0.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa." {
type master;
file "1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa";
};
};
view "intern" {
match-clients { 192.168.0.0/8;};
zone "intern" {
type master;
file "intern;
};
};
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Nov 4, 2009
I'm looking to find out exactly how to go about changing the encryption method of shadow passwords from MD5 to something a bit stronger, like SHA. I've been looking around for a bit now and haven't found out how to do it. I've gathered that I'll most likely need to change the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file. Right now, there is a line that looks like this:
password sufficient pam_unix.so md5 shadow nullok try_first_pass use_authtok.I'm guessing the md5 should be changed to something else, like sha256. What else? I know I'll need to reset all passwords once the change is made, but I thought there was someplace else that controls how the passwd command encrypts passwords.
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Mar 2, 2010
After installing a Dell Optilex 280 desktop with Centos 5.4, I configured sendamil, squid and all the extras I needed for a proxy and email server. All was fine until I switched the machine off. I had changed the resolution before and all was working fine. Now I have lost my gui , the system starts O.K but goes blank after "starting udev". I can use webmin to administer the server from a nother desktop/laptop but the monitor is totally blank. I tried most configurations on the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file even tried to create a new one using X -configure but still nothing changed. I cant afford to reinstall because of the time it takes to update the box, our broadband connections are so expensive this end of the world (Zimbabwe) and not so efficient. I have looked at the logs and tried to google but the solutions wont work for me? I suspect there could be an issue with the intel graphics adapter?
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Feb 2, 2009
I want to change my MySQL default port(3306) as 80 how can i do this on centOS 5.2? I tired to add
[client]
port=80
to /etc/my.cnf and different command in this file. But mysql didn't start. How can do this? I'll use server only as mysql and ftp server.
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Aug 4, 2009
I need a script but i am not good at programming soWhat script have to do:- Every 1 minute is checking if ip address is available (ping)- if ip answers nothing happens- if ip does not answers: * file /etc/hosts is changed by one stored in /home/user/hosts* notification by xterm to restart some programIf finally ip answers file /etc/hosts is changed by one stored in /home/user2/hosts
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Jan 17, 2010
I have a newly installed CentOS 5.4 on Gigabyte G31M-ES2C, I had to change the motherboard since it has some problems. Unfortunately the new motherboard is a rev 2.x board, which has a different onboard NIC (old one is RTL 8102E, new one is AR8132), so now my ethernet connection doesn't work anymore (no eth0 device), I assume I need to install a new driver for the AR8132? If so, what's the steps to do so?lspci shows Ethernet controller as: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev c0)
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Jan 20, 2011
My problem is that I cant "rewrite" older password to new. It looks like I do:
Changing password for user johny.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
all looks OK but after set up new password I can log in using OLD and NEW password. It's very unsecure for me. So in fact I cant change password and it looks like centos create next password to one accout and one account have more then one password... how can I prevent it? pls help me couse its very unsecure in my case.user looks in file shadow /etc/shadow like this:
johny:6JWuwPcQiWCCM:14994:0:99999:7:::
in etc/passwd looks like this:
johny:x:20010:20011::/home/gs-world:/sbin/nologin
how to delete all old passwords?
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Feb 4, 2010
I am running centos 5.4. I just installed eclipse from Application,Add/remove software. The version that installed was not the latest version. I can remove the version I just installed but how should I install the latest version? I was able to dl the lastest version but it came in a .tar.gz file eclipse-java-galileo-SR1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz When I unzipped it, there was no install option but I was able to run it from the tmp folder.
I want to add a menu item under Applications, Programming to link to the latest version that I just downloaded but I haven't been able to figure this out. The 2 question I have are this: 1- Is there a way to have the latest version show up under Application,Add/remove software so that I can just uninstall the version I installed and get the lastest?
2- Is there a way to install the downloaded version and have it show up under Application, Programming? I love this OS but it's taking me a while to figure out some simple things.
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Sep 1, 2011
is everytime i reboot , my keyboard is reset to USA. im in canada & it pisses me off each time i need to change it also.all my options on EMESENE is the same issue always RESET.it's like if nothing keeps the changes once rebooted.
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Dec 28, 2010
I have problems with a very slow workstation (even the mouse movement takes seconds....). Analyzing the processes, I found out that raid related processes are the reason. I have 4 HD, 2 pairs of raid 1. One set of HD covers md0-md3 and one set of HD covers md4-md6. ( run an updated CentOs 5.5 ws) I see that "md0_raid1" process is changing from status "sleeping" to "uninterruptible" about every 4 seconds. I changed one HD in this raid 1 set (which covers md0, md1, md2 and md3). When I only had one HD in this raid 1, there were no such processes (of course there was nothing to mirror to ....)
During the exchanging of one of the HD in this raid 1 set (md0-md3) (which I thought was the bad one)), I removed (by mistake) one HD from the other raid pair (md4-md6), which I now am rebuilding, using the mdadm add command. Checking the process list, they show indeed up as "md5resync" in the process list. Same for md4 and md6. This seems OK. But why do I have these continously recurring "md0_raid1" process in my list, listed as "uninterruptible" ?? What is happeing? When I check with mdadm --detail /dev/md0:
[Code]....
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Aug 4, 2010
Problems with xen 3.1.2 creating and installing domU CentOS 5.5 I am trying to do a virt-install --prompt --paravirt, and the install error out while trying to download install RPMs. I have googled for xen centos virt-install and various permutations. I have found similar howtos for 5.4 and 5.3, but they resulted in the same outcome. I did find several posts with similar issues, but no solution was posted.[URL]..
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Feb 9, 2011
I am in the process of building a new server on an Asus P5QPL-AM motherboard and an Intel E8600 processor.explain to me the difference between the two versions and what would you recommend.Also, is there any advantage of SATA over IDE hard drives?
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Apr 19, 2015
My hard disk is failing and I tried to change to a SSD using the dd command. I can boot up but I get a lot of warnings. The first warning is in GRUB that the device GRUB is looking for does not exist. I tried to install bootlogd to get all the messages to post but installing from the synaptic package manager. Running apt-get install bootlogd gives me these messages:
Code: Select all
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae (3.2.65-1+deb7u2) ...
Running depmod.
Failed to symbolic-link /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686-pae to initrd.img.
[Code] .....
after rebooting I got this from the boot log file.
Code: Select allfsck.ext2: Unable to resolve 'UUID=0ee695a9-d8df-4152-8d32-fc3a99d75f15'
Sun Apr 19 17:26:53 2015: fsck died with exit status 8
Sun Apr 19 17:26:53 2015: ^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[31mFAIL^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c^[[31mfailed (code 8).^[[39;49m
[Code] ....
Is there some way to tell the system I changed to a SSD as I think that is causing the problems ? Or if that is not possible is there some way to transfer my whole system (installed packages, settings and files) to an SSD ? If all else fails I still have an extra spare HDD (exactly the same as the failing one) that I can use but I would prfer the SSD.
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Mar 4, 2010
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Feb 27, 2011
I have 11.3 32 bit running on a machine capable of 64 bit function.With 11.4 coming up, I would like to install the 64 bit version but keep my settings, documents, installed programmes etc.
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Mar 14, 2010
I'm trying to make my BURG boot loader look better, right now it has the Ubuntu and Windows icons, but for name it has things like "untu 2.6" because the name won't fit. I am trying to change them simply to "Ubuntu" and "Windows 7", but I'm having some trouble. Using this guide, I am able to change the entries for GRUB2,but it has no effect on my BURG entries. Even if it was just removing the names all together, and just having the icons, that would be fine.
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Apr 29, 2010
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 today, and during installation, a box came up asking stuff about the name of the network and things like that. I'm on school internet, so it came up as the name, so I just let it be the default. Well, it turns out, this was for the computer name.I was wondering if there was any way I can change the computer name after installation?f I'm not being clear, here's what it says at the terminal:Code:zac@dhcp-presidents-87:~$The dhcp-presidents-87 is what I want changed. I want it to be my name "Zac", and not the network name.
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May 14, 2010
I just have a simple question. When I installed Lucid a few weeks ago, I didnt feel very inspired, and thus left the host name at default. I just changed the hostname today, and I discovered that I can no longer resolve the host for ssh connections to the computer. When I changed the hostname files, I followed this guide: [URL].. Is there a file that I need to change regarding SSH that has a hostname in it?
Specifically, Im trying to ssh and VNC connect to the Ubuntu box from my iPhone. I have a PuTTY client installed on it (from the app store, called iSSH) and up until now, it worked.
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May 21, 2010
Can I change the language of the OS once installed?
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