On 09/19/2017 12:40 PM, Richard wrote:
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:32:00 -0400 From: Pete Geenhuizen pete@geenhuizen.net
On 09/19/17 11:58, Richard wrote:
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 11:53:24 -0400 From: Pete Geenhuizen pete@geenhuizen.net
On 09/19/17 11:44, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
I upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 over the weekend. Everything went well except that I can't login because the screen is black with a cursor.
If reboot boot the 7.3 kernel 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 kernel everything works just fine, so my guess is that there's a kernel issue with the hardware, specifically the Skylake processor.
Video, not the CPU, unless the CPU's also doing video.
mark, fighting 7.4 and two users who need the 304 NVidia driversAgreed if I was using an add-on video card, however I'm just using the no-board video.
I'm using 7.4/Mate on a Dell machine with Skylake i5-7500/Graphics 630, without any issues. I installed 7.3 then did initial updates via CR, and then the final ones when released the other day. Had to change my default mate theme (due to gtk2/3 issues) but otherwise all has been fine.
Hmm I did the same thing other than the Dell and i5-7500, I didn't use CR but waited for the official release. I wonder if I'm experiencing the same theme issue with my mate these If that is the what should I look for to verify that gtk2/3 is the issue, or what theme are you using?
Pete
The mate-gtk2/3 issue effects windows/menus/scrollbars and the like, not the login screen. See:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2017-August/165955.html
for that issue. I switched to the Adwaita theme, as suggested there.
My situation is similar, but different:
After wrestling with it for a half-day, I successfully completed the update to 7.4, but as part of that I had to "rpm -e gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-1.4.5-6.el7_3.x86_64 cheese totem totem-nautilus" so I could "yum update gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.10.4-1.el7.x86_64" and reinstall cheese, totem and totem-nautilus. Then I had no sound at all anywhere on the system, even in audacity and in vlc, both of which *always* work, even when sound doesn't work in firefox and other apps.
Also, I wanted to check my firewall settings prior to rebooting, so clicked on "firewalld" in the "Applications" menu. As soon as I did that, at the very moment I did that, my entire screen flashed and repainted itself. But the screen was different. All the borders on all the windows were gone. Not only that, my touchpad quit working almost everywhere. I can't use the touchpad to focus on a different window, to drag-and-move a window, to click on link in firefox, to click on any buttons in thunderbird, and much more. It still works in the text areas of windows for other things... e.g., I can scroll text up and down inside of windows (using standard double-finger drag), but little else. I plugged in a USB mouse and it works on everything... everything the touchpad used to do.
I mention the firewalld/window-manager/touchpad horkiness because it might cast some light on the "mate" issues mentioned above... point to a deeper source to the problem.
This has been the weirdest update I've ever done. Maybe things will clear up after I reboot. I'm hoping. But thought I'd get that info out in case you don't hear from me in a while (when I eventually reboot into the new kernel).