Version 8 of CentOS Linux distribution (released in September 2019). The CentOS Linux distribution is a stable, predictable, manageable and reproducible platform derived from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
Questions tagged [centos-8]
67 questions
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Centos8 dnf update transaction check error
dnf update giving me this error, after upgrading my centos7 to centos8
Error: Transaction check error:
file /usr/lib64/libgdbm_compat.so.4.0.0 from install of gdbm-libs-1:1.18-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package gdbm-1.10-8.el7.x86_64
I…
Exlord
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What is “/dev/ploop15234p1” on my VPS?
After transferring some big files to my VPS I started getting "No space left on device". Even though du -sh / showed I had plenty of space, df -h reported differently:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/ploop15234p1 9.3G 8.5G…
seattleite7
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"hostname: command not found" CentOS 8
On CentOS 8 the hostname command was removed. With seemingly no way to get it back. No documented way at least Duckduckgo tells me.
The problem with this approach is that the whole world expects the command to remain. For example the Ansible…
onknows
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Trouble with installation of Steam on CentOS 8
After updating graphics card and during installation of Steam on CentOS 8 I get:
[root@comp pawel]# yum install epel-release
Error:
Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides libxcrypt-compat(x86-32) needed by…
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5 GHz AP Mode with Atheros QCA6174A chipset on CentOS 8
I am trying to set up an 5 GHz access point on a machine with an Atheros QCA6174A-equipped Wi-Fi card running CentOS 8.
However, all 5 GHz bands are blocked (no-IR flag set) for operation in AP mode (see output of iw list below). Interestingly, the…
EMC
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no more “ident” command on centos8?
considering to move all our stuff from centos 6 to 8, I'm checking tools we use.
I saw in release doc that packages CVS/RCS providing '/usr/bin/ident' command are no more in centos 8
I can't find where a such command is right now ?
( I do need an…
Overnuts
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How to get "root" user to appear on the GUI login page in CentOS 8?
I was wondering if there is a way to get the "root" user to appear on the CentOS 8 GUI login page, and if so, how to configure that?
o haya
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Why i am getting " no soundcards found..." and not getting any sound?
[msingh@localhost KVMfiles]$ aplay --list-devices
aplay: device_list:272: no soundcards found...
[msingh@localhost Extrasoftware]$ lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio"
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device a3f0
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer…
munish
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Problems with Bridged Network Adapter in VirtualBox 6.1
I have tried other questions & answers in Stackoverflow, but none of the answers worked for me and also the answers were for older version of VirtualBox or for different OS Hosts. So i'm raising almost a similar question, i don't have a…
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How to fix dnf install on Centos 8
I need this command to work:
$ dnf install postgresql12
Now it raises an error:
No match for argument: postgresql12
Error: Unable to find a match: postgresql12
However, if I specify repo, it starts working:
$ dnf --repo postgresql install…
Jacobian
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CentOS not finding wifi adapter
I installed CentOS on a Lenovo yoga laptop a few days ago, but I cannot get the wifi to work. I've tried lots of things following suggestions from replies to several questions on different sites. NetworkManager-wifi is installed (and always was).…
Cristóbal Sifón
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Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name
I have problem with DNS resolving in my WSL1, here is the example:
[rootname@hostname ~]# yum update
CentOS Stream 8 - AppStream 0.0 B/s | 0 B 00:00
Errors during downloading…
Fila
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Sign virtual box modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) Centos 8
I started using Centos 8 recently, and I installed VirtualBox to manage my virtual machines, the problem that I encountered with is that my VirtualBox couldn't boot any VMs and it told me to execute this script /sbin/vboxconfig as root, when I run…
Younes LAB
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No such file or directory on all binaries after uninstalling RPM
This morning I was recompiling an RPM that I need to test that's built with CMake and I went to uninstall the old one which was missing some stuff. After uninstalling the old one, I went to install the new one and suddenly I'm getting "no such file…
Darin Beaudreau
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Yum nothing provides libraries
I'm trying to resolve a library dependency issue with a few packages (our code). We have one package, let's say package A, which has a dependency on two libraries provided by package B.
Package A's Cmake files have gone through some heavy…
Darin Beaudreau
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