Dear John,
ok, now it is clear. Unfortunately, I tried it twice and nothing
happens. This is so frustrating.
Thanks for your help though.
Stefano
On 2019-01-29 10:47, John Pilkington wrote:
On 29/01/2019 10:24, S. Vergani wrote:
Dear John,
sorry I forgot to add the this part of your message
This bit of magic, from a recent post, is said to stop that link
getting camouflaged:
<begin pgp signed message to disable safelinks/>
was not clear to me.
Many thanks,
Stefano
On 2019-01-29 10:14, S. Vergani wrote:
On 2019-01-28 18:40, John Pilkington wrote:
On 28/01/2019 14:10, S. Vergani wrote:
Dear all,
I am running scientific linux on a ThinkPad t440p. During the past
1.5 years, I have been experiencing the same apparently unsolvable
problem with SL 7.5. Every time I closed the pc without locking it
or I tried to restart it, the pc froze and the only thing to do was
to force shut down. I have been using GNOME classic but with any
other desktop as well (I tried them all) the problem persisted.
I upgraded yesterday to SL 7.6 and finally the issue disappeared.
This morning I started again the session and SL was back to 7.5.
When I start the session (I have windows 7 dual-boot) I can choose
only between some versions of SL 7.5 and windows. The aesthetics is
then exactly as it was with SL 7.5, but when I check which version
I am running it shows SL 7.6. The old issue came back and again it
freezes every time.
Could someone help me with the matter? To summarize, the selections
during boot phase, the aesthetics, and the old issues of SL 7.5 are
back, but I upgraded to SL 7.6 and when I ask for the OS the output
is
NAME="Scientific Linux"
VERSION="7.6 (Nitrogen)"
ID="scientific"
ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora"
VERSION_ID="7.6"
PRETTY_NAME="Scientific Linux 7.6 (Nitrogen)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:scientificlinux:scientificlinux:7.6:GA"
HOME_URL="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.scientificlinux.org__&d=DwICAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=Aqd5_VH4PlFI7GAYLgL25bt5Og8RNo4gM-d9z9NJh7A&s=QXGDFZ1WCt4tUiw6xnohs8oDWnt_8gJoHiC7vW6ikH8&e=";
BUG_REPORT_URL="mailto:[email protected]";
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Scientific Linux 7"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=7.6
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Scientific Linux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="7.6"
Many thanks,
Stefano
Hi: In the past people have found that their systems had not
properly
upgraded. I don't know whether the underlying problems have been
fixed now, but this thread might help:
https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1805&L=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS&P=13374
This bit of magic, from a recent post, is said to stop that link
getting camouflaged:
<begin pgp signed message to disable safelinks/>
The 'overnight' freezes problem really needs logs, or at least some
indication of what processes had been active. Firefox videos,
perhaps?
John P
Dear John,
thank you very much for your help. I tried the "magic spelling" the
post suggested, but nothing happened. This is such a weird issue, the
first day SL 7.6 was completely different and when I shut down I
somehow downgraded back to 7.5 even if now it still says I am running
SL 7.6 but in boot phase I can choose only SL 7.5.
Regarding the overnight freezes, I have been fighting against it
forever. It happens in every situation, simply every time I clik
"restart" or I close the pc without locking it, it freezes forever.
This started when I upgraded from SL 7.4 to 7.5. Before that, it was
perfect. Apparently, the issue was solved upgrading to SL 7.6 but now
this second issue kicked in.
Do you have any other suggestion?
Many thanks,
Stefano
Hello Stefano: I'm not sure if you tried the sequence that I linked
in my reply:
yum remove yum-conf-sl7x
yum install yum-conf-sl7x
yum clean all
yum update
The link was to the list archives on 15 May last year, and you can
view the whole thread for the background. The 'magic' line was
intended to stop the mailing list scrambling the URL, and it looks as
if it worked. See the most recent posts in the archive for that. I
must admit that the URL with its 'scripts/wa.exe' does look a little
unlikely, but you can get to the archive via the SL website if you
wish.
Otherwise I can only hope that someone else can help.
Good luck,
John
--
Stefano Vergani
Doctor of Philosophy Student
STFC Data Intensive Science Studentship Beneficiary
Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory
King's College, University of Cambridge
