Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Thanks all for the thoughts. I have no issues with 7.4 - this was clearly "freek" accident while updating, either internet connection closed on me or something. I brought the unit back here, I tried a few of the suggestions - wasn't really working for me. So I just re-installed 7.4 and all was fin

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
-Original Message-From: John Hodrien Reply-to: CentOS mailing list To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:59:25 +0100 (BST) On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > This happened to me on one of the units during a 7.4 upgrade,

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-20 Thread Jerry Geis
Thanks all for the thoughts. I have no issues with 7.4 - this was clearly "freek" accident while updating, either internet connection closed on me or something. I brought the unit back here, I tried a few of the suggestions - wasn't really working for me. So I just re-installed 7.4 and all was fine

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: This happened to me on one of the units during a 7.4 upgrade, and the only way for the system to work for me was to use the previous os. I tried to use the yum remove kernal 7.4 , but yum tried to remove all of the kernels instead of just that last o

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 9/19/2017 9:51 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I was doing an update to 7.4 and somewhere in middle the machine died. > > If I drop back to a previous kernel the machine is alive. So how do I say > "forget the previous yum update" and start all over and do it again. > > Booting into the new kernel I g

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-19 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Sep 19, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > If I drop back to a previous kernel the machine is alive. So how do I say > "forget the previous yum update" and start all over and do it again. Since you are mid-transaction, you should at least try: yum-complete-transaction This is the safest

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-19 Thread Jon Pruente
You'll want to look into 'yum history' with the 'info' and 'undo' subcommands. Not sure how well it works for larger updates but I've had success on broken packages. On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I was doing an update to 7.4 and somewhere in middle the machine died. > > I

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-19 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/19/2017 9:51 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: I was doing an update to 7.4 and somewhere in middle the machine died. If I drop back to a previous kernel the machine is alive. So how do I say "forget the previous yum update" and start all over and do it again. Booting into the new kernel I get a kerne

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-14 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 14/09/2017 à 03:02, Johnny Hughes a écrit : > I have a test machine with an NVIDIA card .. let me see if the > proprietary NVIDIA driver works on this for 7.4. I have an NVidia GeForce GT218 card on my workstation, with a twin monitor. Updated everything to CentOS 1708, and the kmod-nvidia-340x

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-14 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 09/13/2017 04:40 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > >> I am running the propriatry NVIDIA driver 384.69 for GT 720 support. >> > The ELrepo driver works very well for me with CentOS 7.4.1708 on a Dell > Precision M6700. Here's what I have: > ++ >

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-14 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi Johnny Thanks for the commands I think something was messed up as the yum group install "Gnome Desktop" seems to do the trick. I had all the other items setup, for disable nouveu and all that.for the binary NVIDIA. Anyway - my desktop is back up and running, thanks. Jerry

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Lamar Owen
On 09/13/2017 04:40 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: I am running the propriatry NVIDIA driver 384.69 for GT 720 support. The ELrepo driver works very well for me with CentOS 7.4.1708 on a Dell Precision M6700.  Here's what I have: ++ [lowen@localhost ~]$ nvidia-detect -v Probing for supported NVIDIA

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/13/2017 08:46 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/13/2017 04:12 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> if I do "init 3" to exit graphics. then run startx - it does not start - >> but the only message (no errors) is >> Server terminated successfully. >> > > In order to use the proprietary NVIDIA driver, you w

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/13/2017 04:12 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > if I do "init 3" to exit graphics. then run startx - it does not start - > but the only message (no errors) is > Server terminated successfully. > In order to use the proprietary NVIDIA driver, you will need to disable the nouveau driver in the initrd.

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/13/2017 08:02 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/13/2017 07:59 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 09/13/2017 04:12 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >>> if I do "init 3" to exit graphics. then run startx - it does not start - >>> but the only message (no errors) is >>> Server terminated successfully. >>> >> >>

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/13/2017 07:59 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/13/2017 04:12 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> if I do "init 3" to exit graphics. then run startx - it does not start - >> but the only message (no errors) is >> Server terminated successfully. >> > > You can check the /var/log/Xorg.0.log to get some cl

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/13/2017 04:12 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > if I do "init 3" to exit graphics. then run startx - it does not start - > but the only message (no errors) is > Server terminated successfully. > You can check the /var/log/Xorg.0.log to get some clues signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sign

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/13/2017 03:40 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > > I am running the propriatry NVIDIA driver 384.69 for GT 720 support. > > If you installed it directly from nvidia, you would need to boot to > runlevel 3 and rerun the NVIDIA*.run script to build

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Wed, September 13, 2017 4:10 pm, Jerry Geis wrote: > I have recompiled the NVIDIA binary driver. That is like an oxymoron ;-) You can not recompile NVIDIA binary driver, you don't have source code for it. All you have is a binary compiled at NVIDIA, and small piece of code for interface betwee

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Jerry Geis
if I do "init 3" to exit graphics. then run startx - it does not start - but the only message (no errors) is Server terminated successfully. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Jerry Geis
I have recompiled the NVIDIA binary driver. So graphics comes up - just when I click on the user - it restarts. Jerry On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am running the propriatry NVIDIA driver 384.69 for GT 720 support. > > Jerry > > _

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/13/2017 03:40 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am running the propriatry NVIDIA driver 384.69 for GT 720 support. Depending on how you installed the driver, it may need to be recompiled for the new kernel. If you installed it directly from nvidia, you would need to boot to runlevel 3 and rerun the

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Jerry Geis
I am running the propriatry NVIDIA driver 384.69 for GT 720 support. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Jerry Geis
I continued to play to get this running. I am close. When X comes up and I click on the user to login - It appears X restarts. I do see a message that gdm was killed by SIGTRAP in the logs. I may just have something not installed at this point. I had to "yum remove" a couple things to allow the up

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/13/2017 10:08 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/13/2017 09:14 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> I am attempting to update to 7.4 using the DVD >> >> I get these errors(truncated list) >> Error: Package: libgpod-0.8.3-14.el7.x86_64 (@epel) >>Requires: libusbmuxd.so.2()(64bit) >>R

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/13/2017 09:14 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am attempting to update to 7.4 using the DVD > > I get these errors(truncated list) > Error: Package: libgpod-0.8.3-14.el7.x86_64 (@epel) >Requires: libusbmuxd.so.2()(64bit) >Removing: usbmuxd-1.0.8-11.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda) >