[CentOS] Nvidia related kernel panic on boot, *unless* the keyboard is tapped

Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane, JXVS todd.denniston at navy.mil
Wed Mar 1 16:32:35 UTC 2017


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Brown [mailto:centos2 at duncb.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2017 5:49 AM
> To: CentOS at centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] Nvidia related kernel panic on boot, *unless* the keyboard is tapped
> 
> So here is an odd one
> 
> Ever since the upgrade to 7.3, when using the el-repo kmod-nvidia, boot
> hangs around the 'mounted /boot' point. If left it then kernel panics
> 
> However at that point, tapping the keyboard gets it going again. As I'm
> using a wireless keyboard, even the act of switching the keyboard on
> gets it going again
> 
> This doesn't happen without the kmod, and I'm in the process of
> capturing the panic to file the bug report with el-repo, but for the
> sake of conversation has anyone seen anything like this before, or have
> any idea why that could happen?
> 
> cheers
> 
> Dunc
> 

I have not checked to see if elrepo has kicked out all the new drivers to fix it since then, but apparently RH changed some kernel 'pointers' in 7.3 which kind of messes up some of the kmods:
https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=715
https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=710

I am betting that you installed the kmod-nvidia before the upgrade to 7.3 and thus did not get the kind of warning that those folks did.
Perhaps even related to this issue:
https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=693

which kmod-nvidia do you have?  At the bottom of 693, pperry indicates: "kmod-nvidia-367.57-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64 is for EL7.3".

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