Sent from BlueMail On 05 Dec 2018, 7:22 AM, at 7:22 AM, Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org> 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 > >There is a patch in that bug you might like to try. > >> 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