On 10/27/18 10:42 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> Using yumex, rather than doing a full update to SL 7.5 production, I
> attempted to update over the network the kernel, firmware, and libgcc,
> allowing yumex (essentially yum) to establish the needed dependencies
> (other applications, etc., that also needed to be updated).  The
> resulting kernel will not boot, but merely hangs.  If one waits long
> enough, the "progress bar" at the bottom of the screen does show the
> typical blue/white progression, but that is all.  When I reboot and
> manually select the previous kernel, the system reboots.  I am using
> MATE for a "control" GUI, although as the system never gets to the login
> screen, MATE should not be "active".   It appears that yumex (yum) does
> not fully resolve all required dependencies.  What other components must
> I update?

Pressing <ESC> should get you the text boot messages which hopefully 
should point you towards what is going wrong - or remove rhgb from the 
kernel command line.


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