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

2020-08-09 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 09/08/20 10:40, Johnny Hughes ha scritto: On 8/9/20 2:49 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Il 07/08/20 17:39, Leon Fauster via CentOS ha scritto: Am 07.08.20 um 17:17 schrieb Alessandro Baggi: Hi Johnny, what is the current status of the notification tool for security updates on C8? There are

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

2020-08-09 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/9/20 2:49 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > Il 07/08/20 17:39, Leon Fauster via CentOS ha scritto: >> Am 07.08.20 um 17:17 schrieb Alessandro Baggi: >>> >>> Hi Johnny, >>> >>> what is the current status of the notification tool for security >>> updates on C8? There are possibilities to get

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

2020-08-09 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 07/08/20 17:39, Leon Fauster via CentOS ha scritto: Am 07.08.20 um 17:17 schrieb Alessandro Baggi: Hi Johnny, what is the current status of the notification tool for security updates on C8? There are possibilities to get soon announces on ML for EL8? Would be great have the tool

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

2020-08-07 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Hi Alessandro, Compared to Microsoft , both RH and SuSE are awesome. You always need a patch management strategy with locked repos (spacewalk/pulp) which can be tested on less important systems, prior deployment on Prod. Keep in mind that Secureboot is hard to deploy in Virtual

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

2020-08-07 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 07/08/20 15:46, Stephen John Smoogen ha scritto: On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 09:15, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Alessandro Baggi said: you are right but is not UEFI a standard and it shouldn't work the same on several vendors? I ask this because this patch broken all my uefi

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

2020-08-07 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 07.08.20 um 17:17 schrieb Alessandro Baggi: Hi Johnny, what is the current status of the notification tool for security updates on C8? There are possibilities to get soon announces on ML for EL8? Would be great have the tool working. As I understand some kind of mapping must be

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

2020-08-07 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 07/08/20 14:53, Johnny Hughes ha scritto: On 8/7/20 5:30 AM, Phil Perry wrote: On 07/08/2020 10:01, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 8/7/20 3:46 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 07/08/2020 à 09:40, Alessandro Baggi a écrit : Probably many users have not updated their machines between the bug release

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

2020-08-07 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 07/08/2020 à 11:01, Johnny Hughes a écrit : > > Microsoft, Debian, Ubuntu and others also had issues with this .. so if > you are losing trust, you are losing it with all OS vendors WRT this issue. > > All I can say is .. this issue was the hardest thing I have been > involved with since

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

2020-08-07 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 8/7/20 5:30 AM, Phil Perry wrote: >> On 07/08/2020 10:01, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> On 8/7/20 3:46 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 07/08/2020 à 09:40, Alessandro Baggi a écrit : > Probably many users have not updated their machines between the bug > release and > the resolution

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

2020-08-07 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Once upon a time, Alessandro Baggi said: >> you are right but is not UEFI a standard and it shouldn't work the >> same on several vendors? I ask this because this patch broken all my >> uefi workstations. > > The great thing about standards is there's so many to choose from! Also > relevant:

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

2020-08-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 09:15, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Alessandro Baggi said: > > you are right but is not UEFI a standard and it shouldn't work the > > same on several vendors? I ask this because this patch broken all my > > uefi workstations. > > The great thing about standards

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

2020-08-07 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Alessandro Baggi said: > you are right but is not UEFI a standard and it shouldn't work the > same on several vendors? I ask this because this patch broken all my > uefi workstations. The great thing about standards is there's so many to choose from! Also relevant:

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

2020-08-07 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/7/20 5:30 AM, Phil Perry wrote: > On 07/08/2020 10:01, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 8/7/20 3:46 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >>> Le 07/08/2020 à 09:40, Alessandro Baggi a écrit : Probably many users have not updated their machines between the bug release and the resolution (thanks

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

2020-08-07 Thread Phil Perry
On 07/08/2020 10:01, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 8/7/20 3:46 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 07/08/2020 à 09:40, Alessandro Baggi a écrit : Probably many users have not updated their machines between the bug release and the resolution (thanks to your fast apply in the weekend, thank you) and many

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

2020-08-07 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 07/08/20 10:47, Johnny Hughes ha scritto: On 8/7/20 2:40 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Il 07/08/20 08:22, Johnny Hughes ha scritto: "How on earth could this have passed Q & A ?" Hi Johnny, Niki's question is spread, legit, in the thoughts in many and many users so don't see this as an

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

2020-08-07 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 07/08/20 10:46, Nicolas Kovacs ha scritto: Le 07/08/2020 à 09:40, Alessandro Baggi a écrit : Probably many users have not updated their machines between the bug release and the resolution (thanks to your fast apply in the weekend, thank you) and many update their centos machines on a 2

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

2020-08-07 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/7/20 3:46 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 07/08/2020 à 09:40, Alessandro Baggi a écrit : >> Probably many users have not updated their machines between the bug release >> and >> the resolution (thanks to your fast apply in the weekend, thank you) and many >> update their centos machines on a

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

2020-08-07 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/7/20 2:40 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > Il 07/08/20 08:22, Johnny Hughes ha scritto: >>> "How on earth could this have passed Q & A ?" > > Hi Johnny, > Niki's question is spread, legit, in the thoughts in many and many users > so don't see this as an attack. Many and many users,though

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

2020-08-07 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 07/08/2020 à 09:40, Alessandro Baggi a écrit : > Probably many users have not updated their machines between the bug release > and > the resolution (thanks to your fast apply in the weekend, thank you) and many > update their centos machines on a 2 months base (if not worst). I think also >

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

2020-08-07 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 07/08/20 08:22, Johnny Hughes ha scritto: "How on earth could this have passed Q & A ?" Hi Johnny, Niki's question is spread, legit, in the thoughts in many and many users so don't see this as an attack. Many and many users,though really "if this was tested before release" and I think

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

2020-08-07 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/6/20 8:57 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 04/08/2020 à 08:31, lpeci a écrit : >> 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)

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

2020-08-06 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 06/08/2020 à 16:53, Kenneth Porter a écrit : > A practical equivalent is simply to avoid applying updates for a week to see > if > someone else gets burned by them. I'm already waiting for a weekend so I don't > disrupt work in case a catastrophe happens, and I wait at least a week and > watch

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

2020-08-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 03:57:56PM +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 04/08/2020 à 08:31, lpeci a écrit : > > I had the same problem with my UEFI bios machine and I fixed it so for > > Centos 7: While this worked for me, it might not work for you... My "solution" was to boot the previous kernel,

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

2020-08-06 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 8/6/2020 7:25 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: The only real solution I can think of to prevent this would be to make preview versions of updates available to the public so that a lot of people can test them on their hardware, hopefully spare hardware, and give feedback. A practical

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

2020-08-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Le 04/08/2020 à 08:31, lpeci a écrit : >> 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

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

2020-08-06 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 04/08/2020 à 08:31, lpeci a écrit : > 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

2020-08-05 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/4/20 10:45 AM, ja wrote: > 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 >>

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

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

2020-08-03 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 03/08/2020 à 19:24, david a écrit : > After trying several paths, some suggested on this list, here's my results. Hi, Just back from a hiking trip. One of my clients sent me a message that his CentOS server refuses to boot. So tomorrow I have to drive there to figure out what's going on. I

[CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-03 Thread david
After trying several paths, some suggested on this list, here's my results. 1) Fixing a unbootable system wasn't practical in my case. Fortunately, all my systems can be rebuilt from scratch. 2) When I was lucky enough to catch an updated system before reboot, backing out the defective