[CentOS] Need help

Mon Mar 20 22:21:20 UTC 2017

I am also using CentOS, but to get a bug fixed, you have to go upstream to RedHat.   I think John Pierce is right, I had to change my run level to get the alternate consoles to work.  I still have the machine at run level 3 hoping that a bug fix lets me go back to run level 5.   Other machines work fine, just the 2 with the MACH64 video on the motherboard will no longer run X.

Bob S.

-----Original Message-----
From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Rosenthal, Shoshana
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 2:24 PM
To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need help

I did try other console  and it did not work.
I did go from 6.7 to 6.8 but with centos not redhat.

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Styma, Robert (Nokia - US) <
robert.styma at nokia.com> wrote:

> Try another console like ALT-F2.  See if you have a black screen login
> prompt.  I opened a bug with RedHat for a system that when I went from 6.7
> to 6.8 booted but would not start the X server.  Problem was in the MACH64
> driver.  It is missing an external symbol that the X server requires.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Leroy
> Tennison
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 1:35 PM
> To: centos <centos at centos.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need help
>
> This is a wild guess since the problem I had occurred on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
> but the symptoms are identical.  Try 'systemctl enable
> console-getty.service' then 'systemctl start console-getty.service' or, if
> it is headless (serial console only), 'systemctl enable
> serial-getty at ttyS0.service' then 'systemctl start
> serial-getty at ttyS0.service' assuming it's ttyS0).  For VMs (specifically
> kvm/qemu) neither of these "solutions" worked.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rosenthal, Shoshana" <srosenthal at cfa.harvard.edu>
> To: "centos" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 3:25:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need help
>
> I figured out that the system boots OK and it is possible
> to login remotely. However the monitor does not start up.
>
> Do you know how to fix it?
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Rosenthal, Shoshana <
> srosenthal at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> > You are right it is a Dell PowerEdge. However as I said it stops in the
> > middle of booting with no message.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:11 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 3/20/2017 11:54 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am running centos 6.8
> >>>> The system went down when we try to reboot it we get the
> >>>> message ST:3P7Y9Y1
> >>>> Do you know what the problem might be.
> >>>>
> >>> I'm guessing you mean the message on the front panel, which is the
> >>> service
> >>> tag number.
> >>>
> >>
> >> indeed, thats the service tag for a Dell PowerEdge T620, shipped in
> >> September 2013, with dual Xeon E5-X2667, 48GB ram, and 10 3TB drives,
> >> originally running RHEL 6.5
> >>
> >> indeed, you need to connect a monitor to it to determine what stage of
> >> the boot is failing and why.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
> >>
> >>
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