[CentOS] Fresh install in Lenovo T420s gets stuck

Wed Sep 2 06:03:09 UTC 2015
Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>

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On 02/09/15 00:21, Tim wrote:
> I did a fresh installation of centos7 on a Lenovo T420s. But after
> rebooting the machine after the installation process finished I get
> messages of CPU got stuck for 22sec. This happens after logging in
> at gdm. I can't do anything - the machine hangs completely.
> Switching to tty only works before logging in at gdm.
> 
> I really don't have an idea.
> 
> My other T420 (without "s") works fine.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance Tim

Which Video card do you have in the t420s ? my t430s has an Intel one
(00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core
processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) ) and it works fine, but I had
the same issue on my kid's workstation, using onboard Nvidia chipset.
The issue appeared only after the 7.0.1406 -> 7.1.1503 update. What I
did was just install cinnamon and now my kid uses it when logging
through gdm.
I've never had time to investigate the gnome3/gnome-shell issue, but
wondering if there was a mismatch between hardware and software rendering.
Can you try to just install CentOS 7.0.1406 (LiveCD would be enough to
test) and see if that works ? That will not fix the issue for a yum
update though, but at least that would give directions.

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Fabian Arrotin
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