Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-03 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/2/20 7:51 PM, Pete Biggs wrote: > >> >> You just need to reinstall the kernel and it should work. >> >> > Is it possible to bump the kernel version number to make sure the > kernel gets re-installed on automated installs? Or would this break > the compatibility with RHEL? > Well .. It

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Pete Biggs
> > You just need to reinstall the kernel and it should work. > > Is it possible to bump the kernel version number to make sure the kernel gets re-installed on automated installs? Or would this break the compatibility with RHEL? P. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 18:13, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: Stephen John Smoogen > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable > Date:

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
-Original Message- From: Stephen John Smoogen Reply-To: CentOS mailing list To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 10:57:49 -0400 On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 10:20, david wrote: > > I agree it is

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 07:16:25AM -0700, david wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > You just need to reinstall the kernel and it should work. > > > > Sorry for being so ignorant, but I don't understand "just reinstall the > kernel". I don't know how to translate that into a specific yum or rpm >

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 02/08/20 15:10, Marc Balmer via CentOS ha scritto: Thanks for acting quickly, especially on a weekend. This. +1 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 11:06, david wrote: > > > Sorry for being so ignorant, but I don't > > > understand "just reinstall the kernel". I don't > > > know how to translate that into a specific yum or rpm command. > > > >I agree it is a lot of shorthand because of expectations. In the end > >we

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Jason Pyeron
> From: david > Sent: Sunday, August 2, 2020 10:16 AM > > >> Yes .. it should be on mirror.centos.org now .. you could change the > > >> repo where your updates come from. OR .. wait for that mirror to get > > >> updated. > > > > > > > > > I just did > > > yum clean all > > > yum update > > > >

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread david
At 07:57 AM 8/2/2020, you wrote: On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 10:20, david wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >> Yes .. it should be on mirror.centos.org now .. you could change the > > >> repo where your updates come from. OR .. wait for that mirror to get > > >> updated. > > > > > > > > > I just did >

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 10:20, david wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >> Yes .. it should be on mirror.centos.org now .. you could change the > > >> repo where your updates come from. OR .. wait for that mirror to get > > >> updated. > > > > > > > > > I just did > > > yum clean all > > > yum update > >

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread david
>> Yes .. it should be on mirror.centos.org now .. you could change the >> repo where your updates come from. OR .. wait for that mirror to get >> updated. > > > I just did > yum clean all > yum update > > and 15-8 showed up. Maybe the 'clean all' did it, or maybe just showed up.

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread david
>> Yes .. it should be on mirror.centos.org now .. you could change the >> repo where your updates come from. OR .. wait for that mirror to get >> updated. > > > I just did > yum clean all > yum update > > and 15-8 showed up. Maybe the 'clean all' did it, or maybe just showed up.

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/2/20 8:47 AM, david wrote: > At 06:37 AM 8/2/2020, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 8/2/20 8:30 AM, david wrote: >> > At 06:10 AM 8/2/2020, you wrote: >> >> On 8/2/20 8:04 AM, david wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> > I'll post here again once we have pushed the EL8 and

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread david
At 06:37 AM 8/2/2020, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 8/2/20 8:30 AM, david wrote: > At 06:10 AM 8/2/2020, you wrote: >> On 8/2/20 8:04 AM, david wrote: >> > >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> >> > I'll post here again once we have pushed the EL8 and CentOS Stream >> >> updates. >> >> >> >> OK .. I have also now

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/2/20 8:30 AM, david wrote: > At 06:10 AM 8/2/2020, you wrote: >> On 8/2/20 8:04 AM, david wrote: >> > >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> >> > I'll post here again once we have pushed the EL8 and CentOS Stream >> >> updates. >> >> >> >> OK .. I have also now pushed the CentOS Linux 8 update .. you >>

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread david
At 06:10 AM 8/2/2020, you wrote: On 8/2/20 8:04 AM, david wrote: > >> > > > >> > I'll post here again once we have pushed the EL8 and CentOS Stream >> updates. >> >> OK .. I have also now pushed the CentOS Linux 8 update .. you should see >> an update to SHIM .. the new versions are: >> >>

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/2/20 8:12 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 8/2/20 8:10 AM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote: Please report both positive and negative results. >>> >>> A previously afftected Aures nino POS-terminal boots just fine with CentOS >>> 7 and shim 15.8. >>> >>> Now I will test an affected

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/2/20 8:10 AM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote: >>> >>> Please report both positive and negative results. >> >> A previously afftected Aures nino POS-terminal boots just fine with CentOS 7 >> and shim 15.8. >> >> Now I will test an affected machine (Aures Twist POS terminal) that runs >> CentOS

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/2/20 8:04 AM, david wrote: > >> > > > >> > I'll post here again once we have pushed the EL8 and CentOS Stream >> updates. >> >> OK .. I have also now pushed the CentOS Linux 8 update .. you should see >> an update to SHIM .. the new versions are: >> >>

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Marc Balmer via CentOS
>> >> Please report both positive and negative results. > > A previously afftected Aures nino POS-terminal boots just fine with CentOS 7 > and shim 15.8. > > Now I will test an affected machine (Aures Twist POS terminal) that runs > CentOS 8 (well, usually runs CentOS 8, but not now, since it

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread david
> I'll post here again once we have pushed the EL8 and CentOS Stream updates. OK .. I have also now pushed the CentOS Linux 8 update .. you should see an update to SHIM .. the new versions are: PowerTools/x86_64/os/Packages/shim-unsigned-x64-15-8.el8.x86_64.rpm

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Marc Balmer via CentOS
> Am 02.08.2020 um 14:34 schrieb Johnny Hughes : > > On 8/2/20 6:59 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> On 8/2/20 2:04 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >>> >>> Il 01/08/20 22:03, Greg Bailey ha scritto: On 8/1/20 6:56 AM, david wrote: > At 02:54 AM 8/1/2020, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> Hi

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/2/20 6:59 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 8/2/20 2:04 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> >> Il 01/08/20 22:03, Greg Bailey ha scritto: >>> On 8/1/20 6:56 AM, david wrote: At 02:54 AM 8/1/2020, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Hi Johnny, > thank you very much for clarification. > > You

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/2/20 7:06 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Sun, 2 Aug 2020 06:59:06 -0500 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> >> >> On 8/2/20 2:04 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >>> >>> Il 01/08/20 22:03, Greg Bailey ha scritto: On 8/1/20 6:56 AM, david wrote: > At 02:54 AM 8/1/2020, Alessandro Baggi

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 2 Aug 2020 06:59:06 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > On 8/2/20 2:04 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > > > Il 01/08/20 22:03, Greg Bailey ha scritto: > >> On 8/1/20 6:56 AM, david wrote: > >>> At 02:54 AM 8/1/2020, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Hi Johnny, > thank you very

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/2/20 2:04 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > Il 01/08/20 22:03, Greg Bailey ha scritto: >> On 8/1/20 6:56 AM, david wrote: >>> At 02:54 AM 8/1/2020, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi Johnny, thank you very much for clarification. You said that in the centos infrastructure only one

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 01/08/20 22:03, Greg Bailey ha scritto: On 8/1/20 6:56 AM, david wrote: At 02:54 AM 8/1/2020, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi Johnny, thank you very much for clarification. You said that in the centos infrastructure only one server got the problem. What are the conditions that permit the

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Don't forget that EL 7 (non-UEFI systems) & 8 support booting from LVM snapshot (a.k.a BOOM Boot Manager) , so revert is 2 steps away: - boot from the snapshot (grub menu) - revert from the lvm snapshot - reboot and wait for the revert to complete Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov На 1 август

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread david
At 01:03 PM 8/1/2020, you wrote: On 8/1/20 6:56 AM, david wrote: At 02:54 AM 8/1/2020, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi Johnny, thank you very much for clarification. You said that in the centos infrastructure only one server got the problem. What are the conditions that permit the breakage? There

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Greg Bailey
On 8/1/20 6:56 AM, david wrote: At 02:54 AM 8/1/2020, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi Johnny, thank you very much for clarification. You said that in the centos infrastructure only one server got the problem. What are the conditions that permit the breakage? There is a particular configuration

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread david
At 02:54 AM 8/1/2020, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi Johnny, thank you very much for clarification. You said that in the centos infrastructure only one server got the problem. What are the conditions that permit the breakage? There is a particular configuration (hw/sw) case that match always the

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
I got 5 CentOS 8.1 VMs minimal install. When I did the update I got 1 that had dnf issues and corrupted rpm DB and another 1 that didn't boot. Restore from snapshot and again update -> no issues. For me it looks more like a random issue. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov На 1 август 2020 г.

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Thomas Stephen Lee
On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 8:58 PM Lamar Owen wrote: > On 8/1/20 11:02 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > ... > > [lowen@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ^kernel|grep 147 > > kernel-devel-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 > > kernel-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 > > kernel-modules-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 > >

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On 8/1/20 11:02 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: ... [lowen@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ^kernel|grep 147 kernel-devel-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 kernel-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 kernel-modules-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 kernel-core-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 [lowen@localhost ~]$ Well, I sure

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On 7/31/20 6:35 AM, Alan McRae via CentOS wrote: I am running an Intel x64 machine using UEFI to boot an SSD. Installing the latest yum update which includes grub2 and kernel 4.18.0-193.14.2.el8_2.x86_64 renders the machine unbootable, blank screen where grub should be, no error messages,

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On 8/1/20 5:54 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: You said that in the centos infrastructure only one server got the problem. What are the conditions that permit the breakage? There is a particular configuration (hw/sw) case that match always the problem or it is random? I experienced the issue on a

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On 8/1/20 5:00 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: I would wait and install everything as a group. We should have something soon. First off, Johnny and all of the rest of the CentOS team, thank you for your efforts! Second, to all with this problem, I too experienced the issue (I posted on the

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Hi Johnny, thank you very much for clarification. You said that in the centos infrastructure only one server got the problem. What are the conditions that permit the breakage? There is a particular configuration (hw/sw) case that match always the problem or it is random? Thank you Il Sab 1 Ago

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/1/20 1:59 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 10:20:28PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > ... >> >> The issue seems to be with the shim package (not the grub or kernel >> packages) and we are currently working with Red Hat on a fix. This >> issue happened in many Linux OSes and

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 10:20:28PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: ... > > The issue seems to be with the shim package (not the grub or kernel > packages) and we are currently working with Red Hat on a fix. This > issue happened in many Linux OSes and even Windows, not just RHEL and > CentOS. > >

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-07-31 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 7/31/20 11:20 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 7/31/20 11:24 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Il 31/07/20 13:08, ja ha scritto: On Fri, 2020-07-31 at 22:35 +1200, Alan McRae via CentOS wrote: I am running an Intel x64 machine using UEFI to boot an SSD. Installing the latest yum update which

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-07-31 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 7/31/20 11:24 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > Il 31/07/20 13:08, ja ha scritto: >> On Fri, 2020-07-31 at 22:35 +1200, Alan McRae via CentOS wrote: >>> I am running an Intel x64 machine using UEFI to boot an SSD. >>> >>> Installing the latest yum update which includes grub2 and kernel >>>

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-07-31 Thread Alessandro Baggi
: CentOS On Behalf Of Alessandro Baggi Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 11:25 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: {EXTERNAL} Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable CAUTION:  This email originated outside of BSWH; avoid action unless you know the content is safe. Send suspicious

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-07-31 Thread Laack, Andrea P
RedHat is recommending not to patch. https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5272311 Andrea -Original Message- From: CentOS On Behalf Of Alessandro Baggi Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 11:25 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: {EXTERNAL} Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-07-31 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 31/07/20 13:08, ja ha scritto: On Fri, 2020-07-31 at 22:35 +1200, Alan McRae via CentOS wrote: I am running an Intel x64 machine using UEFI to boot an SSD. Installing the latest yum update which includes grub2 and kernel 4.18.0-193.14.2.el8_2.x86_64 renders the machine unbootable, blank

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-07-31 Thread ja
On Fri, 2020-07-31 at 22:35 +1200, Alan McRae via CentOS wrote: > I am running an Intel x64 machine using UEFI to boot an SSD. > > Installing the latest yum update which includes grub2 and kernel > 4.18.0-193.14.2.el8_2.x86_64 renders the machine unbootable, blank > screen where grub should be,

[CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-07-31 Thread Alan McRae via CentOS
I am running an Intel x64 machine using UEFI to boot an SSD. Installing the latest yum update which includes grub2 and kernel 4.18.0-193.14.2.el8_2.x86_64 renders the machine unbootable, blank screen where grub should be, no error messages, just hangs. After some hours I managed to modify