[CentOS] upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

[hw]

Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
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> 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.
>
> Has anyone else run into this problem and if so can how I resolve the
> problem other than using the previous kernel?

Hm, I didn´t connect a monitor after the upgrade, but I found that
hp-health crashes, and a core dump is created with the new kernel :(
That´s a DL380 with an x5690.

Is HP going to update their software, or is RH going to fix this?

> ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.  Z170M-PLUS
> VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06)
> Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz Skylake
>
> Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Pete
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> Pete,
>
> I have had various assortment of problems with 7.4 to the point that I
> quit upgrading the rest of our PC's with 7.4 until the problems are
> identified and fixed.  The only work around that I could come up with is
> to use the last 7.3 os which at least made each unit usable.
>
> As you know, most of the time these upgrades have been seamless because
> the Centos team has done a wonderful job.  However, the upgrade to 7.4
> has some problems, and I decided to stop the upgrade of our remaining
> units until 7.4 works as well as 7.3.
>
> Greg
>
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