On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 2:32 PM Steve Gomez <steve.gomez.sg79 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Ran into this rather frustrating bug when working with VBOX on a Windows 10 > host. It should come as no surprise that I would hit this bug when > installing CentOS, and also with RHEL 7 Server with GUI (since you get the > same kernel). Based on information from your bug list, I was fortunately > able to workaround the trouble with: > > wget > https://people.centos.org/toracat/kernel/7/plus/bug15570new/kernel-3.10.0-957.1.3.bug15570.plus.el7.x86_64.rpm > wget > https://people.centos.org/toracat/kernel/7/plus/bug15570new/kernel-devel-3.10.0-957.1.3.bug15570.plus.el7.x86_64.rpm > > yum -y localinstall kernel-3.10.0-957.1.3.bug15570.plus.el7.x86_64.rpm > yum -y localinstall kernel-devel-3.10.0-957.1.3.bug15570.plus.el7.x86_64.rpm > > However, the bug lists seem to refer only to issues with VirtualBox. I > have experienced the same symptom when installing on a "hardware" system > (no hypervisor). The same commands above also provide a workaround here, > but thought the flag should be raised for CentOS and RHEL that it doesn't > seem to be just VBOX. > > Perhaps the priority of this issue should be raised further up the pole > since I can't imagine it being a good experience for someone who doesn't > know how to dig through a problem like this. The average bear would > install something else and move on. > > In any case, thank you for the patch information. Look forward to a "real" > fix soon. Other than that I'm really liking CentOS 7. > > SG As noted in the CentOS bug report you referenced ( https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=15570 ), I filed a report upstream ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1658669, marked private). In that RHBZ, they were able to reproduce it without VirtualBox. Therefore they are aware this is not just a VBox problem. The fix has been added to kernel-3.10.0-984.el7, meaning it will be in the EL 7.7 kernel. Now there is a separate RHBZ for "Z-Stream" for the same issue. This means that the fix will be ported to the current series (EL 7.6). Unfortunately I have no access to this BZ, so cannot tell the progress there. Once it is fixed in RHEL, CentOS will inherit it. Akemi