On 5/12/18 7:21 AM, Phil Perry wrote: > On 04/12/2018 09:54, Rob Kampen wrote: >> >> So in an effort to narrow down the problem I also have an old Samsung >> laptop - i5 with an nvidia card - all up-to-date 7.5 - I thought I >> would try a more conservative upgrade approach. >> >> first updated to the CR kernel with yum upgrade kernel* >> >> then after successful reboot did an update to gdm* and gnome* >> >> another reboot and all is well >> >> then update of xorg* (only 20 files) >> >> Now it will not boot - keyboard is non responsive so cannot even do a >> Ctrl Alt F2 to access a shell. Old kernel is also non boot. Left this >> machine for now and back to my main desktop workstation. >> > > The only issue I've seen reported that sounds similar or possibly > related is: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1650634 Yes, seems this is the laptop issue, will prove tomorrow. > > There is a patch in that bug you might like to try. Not too keen on this, would need to find a detailed howto as I have not done any rebuilds for a number of years. I presume that RH will at some point release a fix for this? > >> No idea if this xorg problem relates to my original workstation - so >> on that machine I did a downgrade of xorg* - seemed to complete ok, >> but on reboot and login - still the same problem. >> >> As the only clue in the logs is the libc segfault I did a downgrade >> of glibc - this too seemed to work but no change to the system - >> gnome crashes after 5 - 10 seconds. >> > > I'm guessing that probably hasn't helped matters > >> Wasted far too much time on this, no idea what to do now so I have >> done a fresh 7.5 install and all works again - just need to install >> all the additional stuff I use each day, but at least I have a >> desktop that functions. >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos