Tag: CentOS

Building httpd 2.4.6

When trying to build an RPM from the Apache source tarball, rpmbuild bails with: RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_wstunnel.so The problem is that the mod_proxy_wstunnel.so file has been omitted from the httpd.spec file used to build the RPM. Extract the tarball, open up httpd.spec in your favourite text editor and scroll down until you find a...

HyperVM and yum update Transaction Check Errors

If you’re having file conflict problems when running “yum update” on servers with the lxlabsupdate repository for HyperVM (or Kloxo) installed then there’s a simple resolution: cd /var/cache/yum/lxlabsupdate/packages/ rpm -Uvh *.rpm –replacefiles –replacepkgs This should fix errors such as: file /usr/share/man/man1/pcregrep.1.gz from install of pcre-8.02-1.el5_5.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7.i386 file /usr/share/man/man1/pcretest.1.gz from install of pcre-8.02-1.el5_5.1.x86_64 conflicts with file...

Intel VT Virtualisation Technology on Dell PowerEdge servers

Somewhat annoyingly, Dell seem to like to disable Intel’s VT (Virtualisation Technology, sometimes called VMX) in the BIOS on their Dell PowerEdge servers, which means that you can’t use the Xen hypervisor to virtualise Microsoft Windows Server without changing this setting, which requires a reboot of the server to take effect. You can use omreport from the Dell OpenManage Server...