[CentOS] upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

[Pete Geenhuizen]

On 09/19/17 11:58, Richard wrote:
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>
>> 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.
>
Hmm I did the same thing other than the Dell and i5-7500, I didn't use 
CR but waited for the official release.  I wonder if I'm experiencing 
the same theme issue with my mate these  If that is the what should I 
look for to verify that gtk2/3 is the issue, or what theme are you using?

Pete

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