[CentOS] upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

Tue Sep 19 15:58:40 UTC 2017
Richard <lists-centos at listmail.innovate.net>



> Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 11:53:24 -0400
> From: Pete Geenhuizen <pete at geenhuizen.net>
> 
> On 09/19/17 11:44, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
>>> I upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 over the weekend.  Everything went
>>> well except that I can't login because the screen is black with a
>>> cursor.
>>> 
>>> If reboot boot the 7.3 kernel 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 kernel
>>> everything works just fine, so my guess is that there's a kernel
>>> issue with the hardware, specifically the Skylake processor.
>>> 
>> Video, not the CPU, unless the CPU's also doing video.
>> 
>>      mark, fighting 7.4 and two users who need the 304 NVidia
>>      drivers
>> 
>> 
> Agreed if I was using an add-on video card, however I'm just using
> the no-board video.
> 


I'm using 7.4/Mate on a Dell machine with Skylake i5-7500/Graphics
630, without any issues. I installed 7.3 then did initial updates via
CR, and then the final ones when released the other day. Had to
change my default mate theme (due to gtk2/3 issues) but otherwise all
has been fine.