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Hi all.

I have a brand new server running CentOS 5. Nagios says its a 32bit install but I didn't think a 32bit OS could see 16GB of RAM and 2 quad core CPUs....but anyway, the install log is attached.

Hmm, not sure where to start on that one. gcc didn't install among several other prereq's. I'm wondering if one of the repos was having a problem.

Also, I'm relatively certain that a 32 bit install can't utilize that much RAM...

Our tech who does most of the work with the installers will be in tomorrow, I'll have him take a look at this.

Yeah, I figured out the gcc thing and just did a manual install. Then the script got a bit further and hung up again because it didn't (or couldn't) create some folders and files. It was and is a huge mess and I need help as soon as possible. This is supposed to go into production asap.

I'm very confused myself on the RAM issue unless its a PAE kernel which I think can recognize up to 16GB. Here's the output from uname -r

You are using a PAE kernel which should be able to handle the extra RAM. Anyway, the problem is that yum is trying to install some conflicting packages, but instead just cancels the installation of a whole bunch of pre-requisites because it doesn't know how to resolve them. Can you try uninstalling mod_perl and running the install script again?

1) In your professional opinion, do you think there'd be a performance hit using the PAE kernel versus an actual 64bit kernel?

2) Followed your instructions and the install errored on the PNP portion. Log file attached.

Still failing at the PNP portion of the install.

Okay, at least all of the prerequisites are installed now, though. Now try deleting /usr/local/nagios/etc/pnp and running the installation again (for some reason there is a file there and it's supposed to be a directory).

That fixed it! Finally got everything installed!

Good deal, glad it's working for you!