[CentOS] CR repo update disaster for my desktop.

Mon Dec 3 20:30:46 UTC 2018
Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>

On 03/12/18 23:47, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
>> Am 03.12.2018 um 11:14 schrieb John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>:
>>
>> On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Simon Matter wrote:
>>
>>>> Le 03/12/2018 à 06:25, Rob Kampen a écrit :
>>>>> I enabled the CR repo and did the yum update. Some 800+ rpms were
>>>>> offered and all seemed to resolve depenancies OK, so yes it was
>>>>> started. The updates completed and all looked good, until the reboot.
>>>> I got a similar disaster here. I guess the lesson to be learned is that
>>>> CR is nice to have on servers, but don't use it on desktops.
>>> My question is what will change with the final release of 7.6? I thought
>>> the CR repo usually holds all updates with the exception of
>>> centos-release, or are there more updates to come? I had the impression
>>> that in the past, the final release brought only cosmetic changes with the
>>> centos-release being updated.
>> I've seen zero problems on Desktops I've installed CR on.
>>
>> If CR has issues, as you say you'd expect 7.6 to have problems.  If things are
>> failing with CR updates, you really want to investigate what's going on.
>>
> The mentioned problem could be related to the nvidia packages ...
> such cases (transition to 7.6) were discussed on ELrepo's list.
That is why I removed kmod-nvidia and am now running on nouveau - still 
have the problem.
> http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/
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