[CentOS] CentOS 6.10 Boot Xorg Issues with Kernels 2.6.32-754

Mon Sep 10 04:11:55 UTC 2018
nschehovin at yahoo.com <nschehovin at yahoo.com>


Brian,


Sorry, I'm only running CentOS 6.  I don't know.

Ed




On Sunday, September 9, 2018, 7:06:29 PM EDT, Brian Bernard <brian.brianbernard at gmail.com> wrote: 





Thank you for your reply, Ed.

Do you know if this issue affects CentOS 7.5 and kernels 3.10.0-862?

I'm thinking of upgrading to 7.5 in order to support a meteorological project I'm working on.

Brian

On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 10:07 PM, nschehovin--- via CentOS <centos at centos.org> wrote:
> Brian, 
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> Sorry I forgot to switch to plain text.
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> The link is:
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> https://bugs.centos.org/view. php?id=15186#
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> Ed
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> On Saturday, September 8, 2018, 9:56:25 PM EDT, nschehovin--- via CentOS <centos at centos.org> wrote: 
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> Brian,
> There is a kernel bug that seems to affect systems with older Intel processors.  I have a Dell Laptop that on bootup of kernel 2.6.32-754.3.5.el6.x86_64 will display a white square in the upper left corner of the screen and halt.  If I roll back to the 2.6.32-696.30.1.el6.x86_64 version kernel all is well. 
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> 0015186: Cannot boot with kernel-2.6.32-754.3.5.el6.x86_ 64 - CentOS Bug Tracker
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> Ed
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>     On Saturday, September 8, 2018, 2:38:58 PM EDT, Brian Bernard <brian.brianbernard at gmail.com> wrote:  
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> Hello,
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> Ever since I updated my CentOS 6 machine from 6.9 to 6.10 Xorg will not
> start with the 2.6.32-754 kernels. Instead the computer will reboot. This
> issue does not exist with the 2.6.32-696.30.1 kernel from CentOS 6.9 that I
> still have on my system.
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> Has anyone else encountered this issue, and if so, how did you rectify it?
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> Thank you for any help.
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> Brian Bernard
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