Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 shim fix failed

2020-08-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On 8/5/20 5:40 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: Is there some way we could get the initrd rebuild to be more verbose, so that it doesn't appear to hang? It would be nice to get feedback that something is happening, especially on an older, slower system that takes a long time for this step. While

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 shim fix failed

2020-08-05 Thread Kai Bojens via CentOS
Am 05.08.20 um 13:44 schrieb Leon Fauster via CentOS: > Take a look into "top", > if something like gz or xz is in place occupying your CPU then the > initrd gets build ... just wait :-) 'journalctl -f' shows the state of the build process. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 shim fix failed

2020-08-05 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 05.08.20 um 02:13 schrieb david: At 05:01 PM 8/4/2020, you wrote: Am 05.08.20 um 01:27 schrieb david: At 04:18 PM 8/4/2020, you wrote: Am 05.08.20 um 01:09 schrieb david: At 01:54 PM 8/4/2020, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:44:05 -0700 david wrote: > After all the updates, the system

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 shim fix failed

2020-08-05 Thread Phil Perry
On 05/08/2020 10:40, Kenneth Porter wrote: Is there some way we could get the initrd rebuild to be more verbose, so that it doesn't appear to hang? It would be nice to get feedback that something is happening, especially on an older, slower system that takes a long time for this step.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 shim fix failed

2020-08-05 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 8/4/2020 11:20 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: Running transaction Installing : kernel-3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64 1/1 at which point the process appeared to hang. No further output happened for five minutes. I opened a different terminal and entered "shutdown -r now". The result is an

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 shim fix failed

2020-08-04 Thread david
At 05:01 PM 8/4/2020, you wrote: Am 05.08.20 um 01:27 schrieb david: At 04:18 PM 8/4/2020, you wrote: Am 05.08.20 um 01:09 schrieb david: At 01:54 PM 8/4/2020, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:44:05 -0700 david wrote: > After all the updates, the system was NOT bootable. How long did you

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 shim fix failed

2020-08-04 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 05.08.20 um 01:27 schrieb david: At 04:18 PM 8/4/2020, you wrote: Am 05.08.20 um 01:09 schrieb david: At 01:54 PM 8/4/2020, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:44:05 -0700 david wrote: > After all the updates, the system was NOT bootable. How long did you wait for it to boot, and what did

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 shim fix failed

2020-08-04 Thread david
At 04:18 PM 8/4/2020, you wrote: Am 05.08.20 um 01:09 schrieb david: At 01:54 PM 8/4/2020, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:44:05 -0700 david wrote: > After all the updates, the system was NOT bootable. How long did you wait for it to boot, and what did it do when it failed to boot? What

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 shim fix failed

2020-08-04 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 05.08.20 um 01:09 schrieb david: At 01:54 PM 8/4/2020, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:44:05 -0700 david wrote: > After all the updates, the system was NOT bootable. How long did you wait for it to boot, and what did it do when it failed to boot?  What text messages showed up on the

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 shim fix failed

2020-08-04 Thread david
At 01:54 PM 8/4/2020, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:44:05 -0700 david wrote: > After all the updates, the system was NOT bootable. How long did you wait for it to boot, and what did it do when it failed to boot? What text messages showed up on the console? Any reported errors when you

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 shim fix failed

2020-08-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:44:05 -0700 david wrote: > After all the updates, the system was NOT bootable. How long did you wait for it to boot, and what did it do when it failed to boot? What text messages showed up on the console? Any reported errors when you ran the update or when you rebooted

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 shim fix failed

2020-08-04 Thread david
Your system was most likely rebuilding the initrd, and you interrupted it leaving you with a broken initrd. Try booting off a rescue disk and chroot into the install, and run: dracut -f -v to regenerate all the initrds. Also, you don't need to reinstall the kernel but just do a 'yum

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 shim fix failed

2020-08-04 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 10:54:50AM -0700, david wrote: > Yum got up to the point: > > Running transaction > Installing : kernel-3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64 1/1 > > at which point the process appeared to hang. No further output happened for > five minutes. I opened a different terminal and entered

[CentOS] Centos 7 shim fix failed

2020-08-04 Thread david
Following the advice on this mailing list, I rebuilt (from scratch) Centos 7.8. I added the following line into /etc/yum.conf before the first update: exclude=grub2* shim* mokutil The system worked fine. I was able to do general updates yum -y update and all was well. HOWEVER, following