On 11/18/2018 09:01 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 18/11/2018 à 15:30, Lamar Owen a écrit : >> I did the update from CR, and have some pretty serious issues. Until >> I blew away (by mv to a different name) the .local and .config >> directory trees, I couldn't log in to GNOME at all. After doing >> that, I can log in, but if I do any actual work, GNOME crashes, and >> abrt-cli from root in vc 2 tells me that gnome-shell got a SIGSEGV. I >> figure all of the updates aren't in CR yet, so I'm going to pull out >> my backup machine and work with it until I see if CR gets more >> updates. > > Since Red Hat decided to roll in some major GNOME updates between minor > releases, I'm seriously beginning to wonder if I won't be better off > using Fedora on desktops. That's a real question, not a rhetorical one, > BTW. I'm currently experimenting with Fedora 29 and a minimal KDE, and > the result is quite nice. > > https://github.com/kikinovak/fedora-desktop-kde > > On servers I'll always use CentOS though. > > :o) > I'm actually surprised with the jump in gnome versions between minor point releases. I guess they trying to strike a different balance for the GUI / Desktop and Server services. I actually do appreciate it for my desktops. GNOME3 is the default (and likely the most tested) desktop. There are new gnome-session and gdm updates that I am getting ready to push to CR .. gnome-session-3.28.1-6.el7.src.rpm and gdm-3.28.2-10.el7.src.rpm .. no idea what the actually do yet, but you can see if they fix any of your issues by looking at the upstream errata, etc. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20181120/9bbda659/attachment-0005.sig>