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Kernel Crash - kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00000000ff8179b9
One of my Oracle Linux 6.5 Server running Oracle ASM/GRID experienced a kernel crash, it didn't respond i have performed a hard reboot.
Server is Oracle Linux 6.5, kernel 2.6.39-400.214.3.el6uek....
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PAM: password authentication failed for remote user
I am executing a command from server1 which would do a remote ssh to server2 and execute certain commands as olcne user. I am seeing some exception in /var/log/secure file wrt to pam. Can someone ...
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Why is TCP doing RTO based retransmits (200ms+ wait) vs other fast-retransmission mechanisms?
(Trying this forum after the question was deemed off-topic for Stack Overflow & Network Engineering)
I am investigating an issue where we see occasional 200ms+ spikes in a simple tcp client/server ...
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Postfix not sending emails with no error messages
I have a customer attempting to use postfix to send emails with SMTP. It appears that postfix will parse the email attributes correctly, but before sending the email it begins processing it again. ...
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How do I extend the space of /dev/sda3 on Oracle Linux Server 7.9
Disk capacity is at 105GB, but the root directory (/dev/sda3) capacity is only 39GB, I want to increase the capacity. How can we do this? By the way, the OS is Oracle Linux Server 7.9.
$ df -h
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OEL8 kickstart install on ESXi - hangs at "Reached target Basic System" - why?
I am trying to install OEL8 on ESXi 7 with a kickstart file. I have the ks.cfg hosted on an http server on the local subnet. The ks.cfg settings are taken from a manually installed OEL VM's anaconda-...
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Same VIP different MAC
I am observing this behavior on a dual-homed server that is sending traffic in active/active mode on its 2 links connected to the same uplink switch. The server is running IPMP so it generates traffic ...
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Is it possible to upgrade Oracle Linux 7 to 8 in place?
I noticed in the Oracle Linux 7 documentation, there's a procedure for upgrading the operating system in place for OL6 -> OL7, but I can't seem to find the same instructions for OL7 -> OL8. Is it ...
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Oracle Linux update from 7.4 to 7.6 causes gui login loop
I have a VM based on VMWare Workstation 14
After upgrading fresh installed Oracle Linux from 7.4 to 7.6 and reboot, it boots into Oracle Linux Server 7.6 with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 4.1.12-124....
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Double bracket missing in Oracle Linux
So I was trying to write a script in an Oracle Linux server and nothing worked. To begin with, there is no double bracket as far as I can tell.
Also, the error messages I get are weird. For instance, ...
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Enterprise Linux: /scratch is mounted on a LV but the LV doesn't shown when running lvs
Took over a few Oracle Linux VMs from another team and found this weird situation. The /scratch is mounted on a logical volume according to them, but seems that the system is having some error and the ...
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Expanding an Existing Oracle Linux Cluster
I'm seeking assistance with a situation involving an Oracle Linux 7.9 cluster that's currently running on a VMware virtual machine environment. We have two nodes in this cluster, labeled A and B.
Our ...
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Kickstart file: Where should liveimg --url point to?
I am trying to build a oracle linux 8 virtual machine image without manual intervention. Currently I have a kickstart file with liveimg --url=file:///images/install.img set. I've have the boot.iso on /...
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How does one install nagios-plugins-all RPM on Oracle Linux 9?
[root@snc-ol93-rhck ~]# uname -r
5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3.x86_64
When I try to install the RPM like so ...
[root@snc-ol93-rhck ~]# dnf install https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL9/developer/EPEL/...
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How I can create local repository with module packages
I have VM with Oracle Linux 8.
I need to create a local repository with nginx. But it's a module package. How I can download module packages from officially repository? If I downloaded with:
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I can't install the mc from the local repository
I created a machine with my own repository for the mc package. I connected the repository on the second machine and during the installation of the mc package I get this error:
No available modular ...
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Install Oracle Linux on Hp microserver G8 using ILO
I'm experiencing some problems installing Oracle Linux on a Microserve G8.
This server is headless, i'm using ILO for installation, and SSH for administration.
I can't install OL on this server ...
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VirtualBox - can't get shared folders to work with Oracle Linux 9.1 VB 7.0.4
I never had a problem gettings shared folders to work before on lots of flavors. Switched to OracleLinux and boom - yeah can't get it to work. Guest additions are installed and other features like ...
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The printer edits are cut off at the top and bottom after upgrade cups to 2.2.6 with Postscript source
The background, we're upgrading a technical platform for our ERP that sends postscript editions in A4.
Our old cups --> Redhat 6.1 / Cups 1.4.2 / Foomatic 4.0.4
New platform --> OL 8.7 / Cups 2....
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Deploying VM from VM template on vmware vCenter with Ansible makes network unreachable
OS: Oracle Linux 8.7
vCenter: 7.0.3 build 20051473
hypervisor: VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 19193900
ansible-playbook [core 2.13.5]
python version = 3.8.10 (default, Nov 14 2022, 12:59:47) [GCC 9.4.0]
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Oracle 19c on Oracle Linux 8, dbora start script ONLY starting when chkconfig sets it to level S99. Any other level like S98, fails to start on reboot
I'm running Oracle 19c on Oracle Linux 8, dbora start script ONLY starting when chkconfig sets it to level S99. Any other level like S98, fails to start on reboot. Regardless of the chkconfig level, ...
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Oracle database export error
I am trying to export oracle database but I get error. the error is similar to this question Oracle database schema export, but if I run the the query SELECT o.status, o.object_id, o.object_type, o....
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dnf doesn't show all updates compared to yum
I had a CentOS 7 machine which I converted to use OEL 7 some time back using the centos2ol.sh script.
Today, I gave the command: "dnf upgrade" and it showed be that 17 packages were to be ...
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Postgresql 6.9.24 on Oracle Linux 8.6
I'm trying to install Postgresql 9.6.24 on Oracle Linux 8.6 as it contains some bug fixes and other patches that we need.
This concrete version is not present in the Oracle Linux 8 repositories, only ...
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Unable to remote to VM instance with Oracle Linux 8.6 and XRDP using Remote Desktop Connection
I created a VM instance on Oracle Cloud, using Oracle Linux 8.6. I added TCP 3389 port in VCN on OCI before installing GUI.
I want to install GUI and allow RDP connection to VM instance, so I ...
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Oracle Linux 8 can't resolve host names using DNS
EDIT: FIXED -- My Egress Rules were blocking TCP/UDP 53.
I have a stock Oracle Linux 8 server running on Oracle cloud (OCI) with Postfix installed that stopped resolving names through DNS after a ...
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dnsmasq - failed to bind DHCP server socket: Address already in use - DHCP proxy
I have some issue with dnsmasq. I'm trying to use the existing dhcp that is provide by my router to create a pxe server but dnsmasq give me an errror.
/etc/dnsmasq.conf :
port=0
log-dhcp
dhcp-range=...
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Can't assign IPv6 address to CentOS7 VM on Oracle Cloud
I just can't get to assigning a public IPv6 address to my oracle instance running CentOS 7.
I have assigned IPv6 range to the subnet, and another VM running Ubuntu successfully gets the assigned IPv6.
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Unable to start nginx service in docker container (Oracle linux 7)
I installed nginx(rh-nginx116-nginx) on Oracle Linux 7 docker image. After launching container, while starting of nginx service, getting following error:-
[root@7b5b3ae7d392 /]# systemctl status rh-...
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Can't empty log files
The servers at my work have a script made by me that every midnight copies log files to a folder, copies this folder to Amazon S3 and zeroes the original files.
However, I saw that the original files ...
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Redhat vs Oracle Linux benchmarks
I have two servers, both have Intel 8160 processor, 768 GB memory, same hardware specs, same software/package versions. The only difference being that one is running RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 and the ...
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NFS file owenship inconsistent
I am struggling with an issue setting up a new NFS client. We are using NFSv4.
The old NFS client is Red Hat 5 and I am replacing it with an Oracle Linux 7.3 box.
All of the NFS exporting has been ...
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Installing Oracle Linux R6U7 SPARC on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
I've booted up the server with burned DVD and installation is stuck in the last row of the displayed log:
{0} ok boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/hub@4/device@4/...
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/var/lib/rpm/__db.xxx files delete update alerts
A security audit team has set up File intergrity management solution on some of the linux servers handled by the company I work with. They are questioning us about some alerts they've got regarding /...
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unable to access Linux VM on Azure
I recently uploaded Oracle Linux 6 VM from VM Warework station to Azure. After provisioning the VM , I am unable to connect to the VM via SSH through Putty. "Network Error: Connection Timed Out" is ...
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When is EOL for Oracle Linux 8.5
I found the EOL information on Oracle site a bit confusing - https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/elsp-lifetime-069338.pdf
The above link shows EOL for premier support. They offer basic support ...
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i8042 no controller not found Oracle linux
my server installed Oracle-Linux 7.4 .
it worked till yesterday but today when i restart this server, it has an issue :
my error code is :
i-8042 no controller not found
i need some helps
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Why would my Oracle read from disk?
Our Oracle server (version 12c) is running on a RedHat-6.7 server with 128GB of RAM.
The current size of the only database on it is only about 60GB.
Yet, we see plenty of disk reads -- on the device ...
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