On 10/27/2018 07:08 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Following your suggestion, I pressed <ESC> . Ultimately, the boot hung
at "Waiting for Plymouth boot screen to quit ..."
Was something misconfigured/misinstalled by the yumex update of the kernel?
I did note from the text messages that "Starting Gnome Display Manager"
appeared at multiple steps.
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