Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/25/18 12:33 PM, Fred Smith wrote: I just took a look at the md devices in my raid1, and it seems pretty weird. they were all created by the installer (Anaconda) when I first installed C7, yet 3 of them are 1.2 and one is 1.0. 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 are the same, except for where in the

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-25 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 06:13:26AM +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > > I didn't see any issues with RAID. I think those problems arise only if > you have old RAID devices created with older CentOS releases than 7. Those > were probably created with 0.9 metadata version which may be a

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-22 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 10:47:54PM +, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > Then I ran the upgrade, which went without any notable issues. Reboot > > works fine. the X login screen appears, I enter my credentials and log > > in. It goes through a lot of motions and eventually stops with the > >

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-22 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Then I ran the upgrade, which went without any notable issues. Reboot > works fine. the X login screen appears, I enter my credentials and log > in. It goes through a lot of motions and eventually stops with the > snowy/gray background from the Plymouth boot screen, but with nothing > at

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-22 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 04:33:59PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 01:06:14PM -0800, Alice Wonder wrote: > > On 12/21/18 12:44 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > >On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 06:27:45PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > >>On 2018-12-19, Fred Smith > > >> wrote: > > >> > >

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-21 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 01:06:14PM -0800, Alice Wonder wrote: > On 12/21/18 12:44 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 06:27:45PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >>On 2018-12-19, Fred Smith > >> wrote: > >> > >>[...] > >> > >>>Result: Boots to GDM just fine, but Mate is a black screen.

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-21 Thread Alice Wonder
On 12/21/18 12:44 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 06:27:45PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2018-12-19, Fred Smith wrote: [...] Result: Boots to GDM just fine, but Mate is a black screen. Switching to Gnome, works fine, but I can't stand Gnome. Not knowing what else to try I

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-21 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 06:27:45PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2018-12-19, Fred Smith > wrote: > > [...] > > > Result: Boots to GDM just fine, but Mate is a black screen. Switching > > to Gnome, works fine, but I can't stand Gnome. Not knowing what else > > to try I restored the dd

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-12-19, Fred Smith wrote: [...] > Result: Boots to GDM just fine, but Mate is a black screen. Switching > to Gnome, works fine, but I can't stand Gnome. Not knowing what else > to try I restored the dd backup. This is a known issue, and was mentioned on this list recently. The problem

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-20 Thread Rob Kampen
On 21/12/18 5:21 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 01:50:06PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: hI ALL! There have been a large enough number of people posting here about difficulties when upgrading from 7. to 7.6 that I'm being somewhat paranoid about it. I have several machines to

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-20 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 01:50:06PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: >> hI ALL! >> >> There have been a large enough number of people posting here about >> difficulties when upgrading from 7. to 7.6 that I'm being somewhat >> paranoid about it. >> >> I have several machines to upgrade, but so far the

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-20 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 01:50:06PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > hI ALL! > > There have been a large enough number of people posting here about > difficulties when upgrading from 7. to 7.6 that I'm being somewhat paranoid > about it. > > I have several machines to upgrade, but so far the only one

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-20 Thread Chris Beattie
> -Original Message- > From: CentOS On Behalf Of Fred Smith > I have, as I said, several other machines to upgrade, too, some of them ... > a couple of VMs (in virtualbox) and at work several other VMS as well as ... > I'd appreciate any advice I can get on how to get these systems

[CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-19 Thread Fred Smith
hI ALL! There have been a large enough number of people posting here about difficulties when upgrading from 7. to 7.6 that I'm being somewhat paranoid about it. I have several machines to upgrade, but so far the only one I've dared to work on (least critical if it goes bad) is my