Noticed C6 had a kernel update on Friday.2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64What is the flag in /proc/cpuinfo that indicates the KPTI patch for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 for C6?Some distros are using kaiser some like Fedora are using pti. Also noticed some (l..
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Is there a way to install devtoolset packages without the bloat of eclipse?I just want the new compiler and toolchain, not a big IDE.BTW devtoolset-3 dependencies are broken in yum with C6 yum install devtoolset-3…—> Package devtoolset-3-perftools.x86..
Running C6 fileserver. Want to replace 7 year old HDs connected to an Areca ARC-1220 raid sata II (3Gb/s) controller. Has anyone used this controller with newer 2TB SATA III (6Gb/s) WD Re drives like the WD2000FYYZ or the W..
Notice:The kernel modules for Virtualbox 5.0.20 will not compile on the latest C6.8 kernel 2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64Its a known issue. https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14866Fix is coming out with Virtualbox 5.0.22 version (hopefu..
on updated C6 x86_64 Firefox ESR 45.1.0 is seg faulting on various sites, mainly media sites. Tried uninstalling flash-plugin 11.2.202.616 but problem persists.Work around: installed Seamonkey from epel repoAnyone else experiencing unstable behavi..
This is on a C6 systems.How can I verify that an ext4 data partition is being unmounted properly at(reboot/shutdown) on a sysV init system. Ive looked at S01reboot and S01halt scripts in etc but what Im concerned about is that I mounted my partit..
I was able to get h.264 support on www.youtube.com/html5 on fedora 21 by installinggstreamer1-libavbut that package does not exist in C6 (or its popular third party repos)What is the name of the package which adds h.264 to firefox on youtube/html5..
Still have good quality older sata hardware raid cards that require 512bytes/sector. As far as I know HD manufacturers are not making native 512bytes/sector drives any more.Some have better 512e emulation than others. Looking for some advice on wh..
Noticed firefox is one of the only critical sec. updates from 6.6. So Imanually downloaded the rpm from cr repo and rpm -Uvh firefox-31.2.0-3.el6.CentOS.x86_64.rpmbut it crashes with/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox: symbol lookup error:/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul…
I found this bug fix reporthttp://lwn.net/Articles/616130/I thought we were not able to get Chromium for C6. Apparently it looks like the work has been already done.Is it possible we (Johnny) can get this package into C6? This would be a wonderful addit..
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