[CentOS] 7.2 kernel panic on boot

Mon Dec 7 12:45:46 UTC 2015
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 12/06/2015 10:11 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 09:22:15PM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 06:35:58PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> Always Learning wrote:
>>>
>>>> I always admire Johnny's prose, passion for Centos and his calm approach
>>>> to everything.
>>>
>>> Agreed.
>>> But two possibly OT and probably ignorant queries:
>>>
>>> 1. I am running a standard Centos 32-bit system on my home servers.
>>> I keep them up-to-date, but have not re-booted for several months.
>>> I see from /etc/centos-release that I am running 7.1.
>>> If I re-booted would this become 7.2?
>>>
>>> 2. If so, is this kernel panic a widespread phenomenon?
>>
>> You're running the 32-bit AltArch build of CentOS?
>>
>> The /etc/centos-release is owned by the centos-release package, and
>> the contents will be updated when you update that pacakge.  A reboot
>> won't change that.  In the default x86_64 release, I think that you'd
>> need to pull updates from the CR repo to get the 7.2.1511 packages,
>> still. 
> 
> And just look at the confusion -- because the website almost never
> mentions 7.1.1053 or 7.2.1511, it can be really hard to understand
> this discussion -- one person using "7.1" and "7.2" and the other
> using "7.2.1511". Good thing the 2nd person didn't use "7 (1511)",
> like the website does.
> 
> Oh, wait: CentOS, love it or leave it.

Correct.

In fact, I would prefer you leave.


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