[CentOS] 7.2 kernel panic on boot

Mon Dec 7 13:00:29 UTC 2015
Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>

On Dec 7, 2015 07:45, "Johnny Hughes" <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>

Really?

This is what we're dealing with now?

OK. I will recommend we move away from CentOS.

Good job.
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