[CentOS] Announcing the version 1.0 hexpeek release!

2020-08-04 Thread hexpeek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Announcing the version 1.0 hexpeek release! I am pleased to announce the first stable release of hexpeek, which seeks to be an efficient, powerful, and portable hex editor for files of all kinds and sizes. This release improves on the beta

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 Security Advisories OVAL feed??

2020-08-04 Thread Jon Pruente
On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:34 AM wrote: > Q5) If the answer to the last question is "no": shouldn't there be such > a resource? > CentOS doesn't publish security errata. If you need it then you should either buy RHEL, or deal with putting together your own set up with something like

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

[CentOS] CentOS Security Advisories OVAL feed??

2020-08-04 Thread centos
Dear List, I have spent some time playing around with oscap and the RHEL OVAL feed (https://www.redhat.com/security/data/oval/v2/RHEL8/, also check Chapter 16 of the RHEL 8 Design Guide). Because I could not find an existing OVAL file for CentOS, I downloaded one of the RHEL8 files and

Re: [CentOS] Safe to do yum update now?

2020-08-04 Thread Marc Balmer via CentOS
 > Am 04.08.2020 um 17:59 schrieb Jerome Lille : > > Hello > > Luckily I was not afflicted by this boot hole problem. I haven't done > yum update in a week or so. I just want to make sure that now it is > safe to do yum update? It is. > > /Jerome > >

[CentOS] Safe to do yum update now?

2020-08-04 Thread Jerome Lille
Hello Luckily I was not afflicted by this boot hole problem. I haven't done yum update in a week or so. I just want to make sure that now it is safe to do yum update? /Jerome ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-04 Thread ja
On Tue, 2020-08-04 at 10:36 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Johnny Hughes said: > > The issues should now be resolved. > > > > If you just mount /mnt/sysimage, set an ip address and upgrade (to get > > th new shim) .. then: > > > > yum reinstall > > I'm curious - why does the

Re: [CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Johnny Hughes said: > The issues should now be resolved. > > If you just mount /mnt/sysimage, set an ip address and upgrade (to get > th new shim) .. then: > > yum reinstall I'm curious - why does the kernel need to be reinstalled? The shim-x64 package installs its files

Re: [CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-04 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/4/20 9:51 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 8/4/20 1:31 AM, lpeci wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I had the same problem with my UEFI bios machine and I fixed it so for >> Centos 7: >> >> 1) Boot from an rescue linux usb >> >> 2) When the rescue system is running: >> >>     2.1) #chroot /mnt/sysimage >>

Re: [CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-04 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/4/20 1:31 AM, lpeci wrote: > Hi all, > > I had the same problem with my UEFI bios machine and I fixed it so for > Centos 7: > > 1) Boot from an rescue linux usb > > 2) When the rescue system is running: > >     2.1) #chroot /mnt/sysimage > > 3) Config network: > >     3.1) # ip addr add

Re: [CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On 8/4/20 2:31 AM, lpeci wrote: 3) Config network:     3.1) # ip addr add X.X.X.X/X dev X     3.2) # ip route add default via X.X.X.X    <--- default router While I appreciate the thoughts behind this step in the instructions, and I thank you for the post that will be useful to those

Re: [CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-04 Thread Marc Balmer via CentOS
> Am 04.08.2020 um 08:31 schrieb lpeci : > > Hi all, > > I had the same problem with my UEFI bios machine and I fixed it so for Centos > 7: > > 1) Boot from an rescue linux usb > > 2) When the rescue system is running: > > 2.1) #chroot /mnt/sysimage > > 3) Config network: > >

Re: [CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-04 Thread lpeci
Hi all, I had the same problem with my UEFI bios machine and I fixed it so for Centos 7: 1) Boot from an rescue linux usb 2) When the rescue system is running:     2.1) #chroot /mnt/sysimage 3) Config network:     3.1) # ip addr add X.X.X.X/X dev X     3.2) # ip route add default via