I have been trying to convert our backup web server, Dell PowerEdge 2850, from Windows 2003 to Ubuntu.The box had been hosting a couple of web sites for the past 4 years. It was light stuff, PHP/Joomla on Apache 2 and DotNetNuke on IIS. There was also Apache Tomcat on there. Recently, we also added Subversion and TeamCity for version control plus continuous integration. All of the .NET stuff has been moved over to another server that we acquired. Right now I am trying to get Sun Glassfish 3 and Alfresco WCM to run on Windows on the old server, but it is a major pain in the butt. I could use OpenSolaris, except there are a couple things that are easier in Ubuntu. The box must also be able to run FreeNX properly so that my boss, who is a GUI guy, will be able to log in to a desktop. That leaves Ubuntu, since I am somewhat familiar with it.
I was able to get FreeNX, Glassfish and Alfresco (up to a point) to run using a Turnkey Linux image. The problem is the server is proving to be difficult. I tried starting with the desktop 9.1 CD that I downloaded; however, there is massive graphics corruption on the desktop. It'll boot fine to the Gnome desktop, but the system will become really slow and the windows disappear, leaving just a border. Switching to another VT shows blurry, shaky text. I suspect there is an issue with the graphics driver, but I can't even type in any commands to find out what is going on.
I also downloaded 9.04 Server edition and it installed fine with no shaky text. How hard would it be to build on top of that for XWindows and FreeNX to work? Why is the text shaking in the first place?
I just got my new server today (a Dell Poweredge 2850), and I'm trying to install the latest version of Ubuntu on it, however it fails to detect my hard drives. They are in a raid array (raid 1 I believe). I've never worked with a raid array before, and I'm wondering, is there anything special I have to do to install Ubuntu on one?
FC11 i386 dvd iso image passes pgp verify. Burns fine and verifies fine under nero. Boots fine and verifies fine on my athlon system and installs just fine. Not one issue at all. 1374 pkgs install without issue. Take the same disc put it into my dell poweredge 2850 (dual xeon) and the disc fails to verify.
Even if I go ahead and try to install, it will boot and go through the menus. Then on package install at some point it will say one is corrupt and halts the install. Yet ubuntu 9.04 installs just fine on it. So I don't see how it could be the dvd player itself, though not 100% ruled out.
Several months ago my PowerEdge 2850 SLES 9 server response time gradually slows after reboot. Daily the server seems to get slower and gets to the point where I have to reboot to clear the problem. To address this I added addtional 2G of memory, but issue is now worse. I have to reboot daily.
I have a Dell Poweredge, 6 months old, running Fedora core 8. I have 2GB RAM and 500Gb SATA HD. I am running 3 VMWare machines. Two Win2003 Servers and 1 XP Pro. My server crashes almost daily. It doesn't actually reboot, it just freezes. It got to the point where I had to get a device that automatically reboots the server when it can't ping the server anymore. /var/log/messages has no entries that indicates the server crashed. It just stops at the point where it dies. The windows VMWare server also have no errors in the event log to indicate a problem.
I am running Ubuntu 8.04LTS x64 on a Dell Poweredge 1900 with a Perc 5i RAID Controller. There are 3 500Gb SAS drives in a RAID 5 configuration. The Kernel is Linux dtpfs 2.6.24-27-server #1 SMP Wed Jan 27 23:39:33 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Approximately once every 1 - 2 months I have a problem where the disk usage starts to rise for no apparent reason. When I run df the usage grows steadily over 2-3 days from 26% to 100%. At this point Samba reports that the disks are full. Baobab does not report the additional usage and the tape backup ignores the 'extra' usage and just backs up what was previously there. When I reboot the machine the usage is set back to normal and we can continue.
we have 22 servers Dell (20 Poweredge R210 + 2 Poweredge R310) with CentOS 5.5 x86_64 (kernel 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5). Half of these are on different rack. During the day, some server reboot without any reason and the messages log file had no evidence of what happened.
From /var/log/messages: ... Dec 8 14:10:02 hadoop011 snmpd[3029]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP: [172.27.1.21]:50825 Dec 8 14:10:02 hadoop011 snmpd[3029]: Connection from UDP: [172.27.1.21]:50825 Dec 8 14:15:26 hadoop011 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
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Some minutes after the reboot, messages log this error: Dec 8 14:18:14 hadoop011 Server Administrator: Instrumentation Service EventID: 1404 Memory device status is critical Memory device location: DIMM_A3 Possible memory module event cause:Multi bit error encountered.
Is it possible that 20% (circa) of 60 memory bank are broken? By the way, memory bank have Lifetime warranty from Kingston. If I reboot again the server affected by this error, the error disappear from messages log file and from OpenManage Web interface.
Is it possible that is a CentOS bug? I had search some relative bugs on Bugzilla but without any results.
So basically what I am trying to do is install Ubuntu 10.04 on a Dell Poweredge 2600 server. Right now I dont care wither I get the server version or the desktop version, I just need to get it on their. this is what I have run into. When installing the regular Ubuntu 10.04 desktop for 32bit, the server just locks up on the very first ubuntu install screen and the keyboard lights just start blinking non stop. When I use the server version, the server get to the Detecting Network Hardware and locks up at 94% and the keyboard will also start blinking nonstop. I have looked all over for an answer to this problem and have yet to find one. This guy figured out how to make it work but he never mentioned what version he was using. [URL]..
On this server I have 6 HDs, 5 of them are RAID 0 with 1 Hot Spare. I have also tried using the ubuntu-10.04.1-alternate-i386.iso.torrent and still had the same problem. I have spent the last 3 days searching all over google and the forum to an answer but had no luck.
Ubuntu Server 11.04 64bit seems to work fine on my Dell - most of the time at least. Sometimes upon boot, the screen stays black after grub. If it does boot correctly, I can find the following in dmesg:
After kernel upgrade to latest version I get a lot of failure messages in syslog and dmesg:
Code: Mar 16 22:50:30 s6 kernel: [515925.148335] megasas: Failed to copy out to user sense data Mar 16 23:07:57 s6 kernel: [516970.118242] megasas: Failed to copy out to user sense data
megaraid controller and Dell2850, all that I can see on thi screenshot:
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All drives successfuly passed verifing from LSI controllers (Ctrl+A at startup), also I tried to boot from rescue llive cd and mount all the morrored drives and check it by fsck - ok.
I am trying to install ubuntu server 9.10 on two dell poweredge 2550 servers that I have at work and I can't get the install to complete on either. I saw some posts somewhere saying that it could be bad memory in the computers so I even put brand new memory in each, which needed upgraded anyway but the install still fails.The install usually hangs when trying to detect network drivers and it also hangs on some other file (I forget now). I remember I had an older version of linux on one of them before. The install says the file is corrupted on the cd. I have burned multiple cd's in different drives on different computers using the lowest speed on all of them, and all install attempts fail. I can even take the exact same cd's and install in vmware on my mac so I know for a fact the cd's are fine. What makes me more confused is that I can install windows server 2003 without a hitch on both the servers I am trying to install Ubuntu on.
I am trying to install ubuntu 8.04 general desktop flavour in dell poweredge 2650, but it is not working..doesnt ubuntu 8.04 supports installation in a dell poweredge 2650..if not so thn what can be done for that..any other latest version which does so??
I have a Dell PowerEdge 830 Dual Pentium on which I installed 10.04. I have installed (slotted in) an SB Audigy 2 ZS card, from another PC, but it doesn't appear to be working. The donor PC suffered a graphics card failure that killed the motherboard. I can't tell whether the sound card is actually faulty. Did the sound card ought to work without any 'fiddling'?
Just now did a clean install of Ubuntu 11.04 into Dell PowerEdge 1750 using KVM console and 15" monitor. When booting into Ubuntu, the monitor went "frequency out of range". After reading Ubuntu forum someone suggested holding left shift while Grub is loading, it wouldn't even budge.
I have two Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers. One is a dual Xeon 3GHz with 4GB of RAM (4 x 1GB sticks). The other is a single Xeon 2.4GHz with 3GB of RAM (2 x 512MB and 2 x 1Gb sticks).
Both are running 32 bit CentOS 5.3. Both are running the same kernel (vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.el5). I've even diff'ed the two kernels to ensure that they are in fact identical. The only parameters being passed to the kernel via the grub config are "ro root=/dev/sda2"
The BIOS shows 4GB detected on the 4GB server and 3Gb detected on the 3GB server on boot.
Dell OpenManage for the 4GB server shows "Total Installed Capacity 4096 MB, Available to the OS 3804 MB", as I would expect. However, OpenManage for the 3GB server shows "Total Installed Capacity 3072 MB, Available to the OS 1011 MB". (i.e. it is only seeing the first 1Gb of memory).
cat /proc/meminfo confirms the above; the 4GB server shows "MemTotal: 3895980 kB", but the 3GB server shows "MemTotal: 1035024 kB"
I installed the lshw utility, and on the 3GB server it shows all 4 memory sticks, the full 3GB:
*-memory description: System Memory physical id: 1000 slot: System board or motherboard
So I've got a Dell Poweredge R410 with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 installed and my boss wants me to configure it like this: Eth0 - No IP address (on general tab, activation set to "never") Eth1 - No IP address (on general tab, activation set to "never") Eth2 - No IP address (on general tab, activation set to "never") Eth3 - No IP address (on general tab, activation set to "never") bond0 - eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3 selected (Activation set to "On boot") No IP Address bridge0 - bond0 selected (Activation set to "On boot"). IP, subnet and hostname defined.
The DNS and routing has all been set correctly. The problem is when I set the network configuration as above I cannot connect to the network I'm unable to ping the gateway. I only have 1 cable connected and it's plugged into eth0 but apparently this doesn't matter. If I delete the bond and bridge and instead apply the settings to eth0 it connects no problem but my boss wants to use load balancing and states that that setup should work.
I have a problem with my network interfaces on Dell poweredge server. I have two broadcom 5708 Gigabit network cards and they were working fine with my old kernel (2.6.18). recently, i have updated the kernel to 2.6.35(actually installed a new distribution Ubuntu 10.10) Since then, I have problem connecting to my server, the output of ifconfig shows that both NIC`s are working and assigned IP, i can connect to the system from both local machines and through internet. but sometimes suddenly the connection through internet is disconnected (some times to one NIC and sometimes to both!).
here is the result of: $ethtool -i eth# driver: bnx2 version: 2.0.15 firmware-version: 5.2.7 bc 5.0.4 ipms 1.6.0 bus-info: 0000:06:00.0
I was wondering if anyone here has had the same problem before and can share a solution with me?
I am having issues installing Centos on a Dell Poweredge 1950. I have tried 5.3 and 5.4, and the text only install. The error I get is when I select what keyboard layout to use. An error window pops up and says "Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sector + S == A) at dos.c:624 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed " I can click ignore and cancel but it instantly pops back up. I have tried to look up the error but can't find any information on it.
I was trying several times to install Centos 5.4 32bit via DVD or netinstall method. Installations stops at setp where is formating disk and always at 12%. No error messages only can't format logical volume and please reboot server. Also deleted and create fresh RAID 1 array, but not helping.
I am looking at getting a Dell Poweredge 850 Pent4 3.6GHz 64bit with two 160Gig SATA drives and I was wondering if anyone has installed Centos on one of these servers or has anyone had any issues installing Centos on these servers.
I have been trying to do some testing with server cloning and partitioning and hit some walls. The server is question is a Dell PowerEdge 2950 and the Distro's I have tried are :-
The problem is a little strange is that the console appears to keep reporting either unreadable sectors on sr0 for clonezilla till SQUASHFS fails to load/locate and it panic's or in the case of Parted Magic.. copying files to RAM ..cp: read error: Input/output error
Mounting pmagic-6.2.sqfs... mount: wrong fstype, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so Mounting //sqfs_disk/pmagic-6.2.sqfs failed.
type "exit" to reboot the computer bash-4.1#
Now the only problem here is I can't check the log's or dmesg the thing because it freezes the KVM and as I am offsite I have no spares with me Parted Magic does boot on a number of other servers like the R900 but will not boot at all here, I have tried safemode and disabling various other flag's but I must be missing something.
I'm having trouble getting a PCIe device to show up in lspci using pcie hotplug.
After booting the system I load the pciehp module, I then plug-in my PCIe card. After that I do an lspci, but I don't see my PCIe card. When I cold boot with the PCIe card installed the system sees it fine, i.e. it show up in lspci.
Does anyone know of an easy way to figure out if my hardware even supports pcie hotplug?
When I load the hotplug module I just do a modprobe pciehp. Is this all I need to do prior to plugging-in my pcie card?
I will try running pciehp with debugging turn on to see if that gives me any additional info.
I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with Centos 5.4 installed. I am having an issue where there is no network activity on any of the NIC's.(Broadcom and Intel).
I have read that this might be somewhat common but have not found any solutions. I am unable to ping anything internal or external. Has anyone encountered this problem and have a potential fix?
This is my problem, I want to install debian 5.5 Lenny stable (2.6.26-2-amd64) on our new Dell PowerEdge T610 with a PERC controller H200 but nothing to do, the default Debian installer does not detect it. After more research, the module that I must load is "mpt2sas" and after normaly my hard-drive will be detected I'm going on the Dell site, there are only drivers for RedHat and Suze distribution .. I still try to install rpm packages but without success!
Has anyone successfully installed openSUSE 11.2 on a Dell PowerEdge 1850 system?Undoubtedly, it wasn't wise to attempt to upgrade from 10.2 to 11.2 but I was forced into it by a security audit of DMZ systems.It didn't go as smoothly as the jump from 9.3 to 10.2.I've spent the better part of a week getting an openSUSE 11.2 system installed.I went back to reiserfs and managed to get through and apply all the updates to openSUSE 11.2 today.When I got to the final reboot, it failed when I attempted to log into the system.Basically, the keyboard and mouse became inoperable.The only way out of this situation is to mash the reset button.
Rebooting into safe-mode and adding level 3 to the safe mode boot options, I get to the point of starting sshd when the lock-up occurs.It looks like X11 is the culprit.Booting a forensics DVD, I find that there is an xorg.conf.installation but no xorg.conf file.The ATI Radeon VE chip set is used on the PowerEdge.From another openSUSE system that I haven't upgraded, I see that X11 was configured for VESA mode. This is, probably, the mode that is needed as console access is, normally, through a KVM.Can anyone provide a way to get past this problem with a workable keyboard and mouse?
