Comments on: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

By: varun

varun — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:49:39 +0000

Thanks Dave. Your post helped solve my problem. Option 2 worked for me as well.

varun

By: Joe Auty

Joe Auty — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:48:50 +0000

David,

You are my favorite person in the world right now! I had one of those super frustrating, super stressful all-nighters tonight trying to deal with one set of problems and causing another by upgrading CentOS from 5.2 to 5.5. It took me *forever* to think of Googling for CentOS 5.5. specific problems since I figured that VMWare Server is so self-contained that the OS it runs on is pretty much irrelevant so long as the kernel modules work. I was obviously wrong!

I can go back to breathing again, thanks again for this very thoughtful and detailed fix!

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By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:42:37 +0000

Thanks Dave,

Option 2 worked very well for me.

Eric

By: cyberbot

cyberbot — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:57:13 +0000

Thank you for the nice trick
i didnt get this step
Step 1: Go to /etc/yum.repos.d and copy the file CentOS-Base.repo to CentOS53-Base.repo

i can browse to /etc/yum.repos.d
but you mean rename the centos-base.repo to Centos53-base.repo?
i didnt get it thank you

By: SJUTECH

SJUTECH — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:38:23 +0000

FYI - Centos has taken the 5.3 Mirror down and has not added it to there Vault... So the Downgrade will not work unless you make a small change to the CentOS53-Base.repo.

I found that there is one US located mirror that is 50.3 days out of sync and still has the repositories on it for the 5.3 release (http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/centos/5.3/). So I had to make the Following Adjustments on my recent build of VMserver:

[base53]
name=CentOS-5.3 - Base
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.3&arch=$basearch&repo=os
baseurl=http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/centos/5.3/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#released updates
[updates53]
name=CentOS-5.3 - Updates
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.3&arch=$basearch&repo=os
baseurl=http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/centos/5.3/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons53]
name=CentOS-5.3 - Addons
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.3&arch=$basearch&repo=os
baseurl=http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/centos/5.3/addons/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras53]
name=CentOS-5.3 - Extras
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.3&arch=$basearch&repo=os
baseurl=http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/centos/5.3/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus53]
name=CentOS-5.3 - Plus
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.3&arch=$basearch&repo=os
baseurl=http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/centos/5.3/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#contrib - packages by Centos Users
[contrib53]
name=CentOS-5.3 - Contrib
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.3&arch=$basearch&repo=os
baseurl=http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/centos/5.3/contrib/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

What I Did was:

I commentted out the Mirrorlist line and uncommented the baseurl and then set it to look at the http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/centos/5.3/" Directoryname" and then I was able to sucessfully downgrade to the 2.5-34.el5_3.1 glibc files.

I also made a slight cahnge to the yum.conf:

instead of exclude=glibc glibc-common glibc-devel glibc-headers glibc-utils nscd

I am using exclude=*2.5-42* to exclude jsut the package that is the issue allowing me to still get all the glibc updates for centos 5.3.

By: farewelldave

farewelldave — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:04:48 +0000

I may be misreading your comment, however it appears that you are upset in what you are expressing as not giving credit to the CentOS Bugs page regarding glibc problems with VMware Server? I simply summarized info into an easily read and followed post. The Bugs page you linked does have a good amount of info, however I got the main content from several posts on the VMware communities forum, and simply made a page for the ease of most users that don't have a lot of experience with Linux and needed an easy to follow solution. Thanks

By: RevRagnarok

RevRagnarok — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:46:36 +0000

Nice of you to source your info that we put together for you - http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884

By: brent

brent — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:10:45 +0000

David,

You are my hero. Thank you so much.