Dear all,



I am running scientific linux on a ThinkPad t440p. During the past 1.5 

years, I have been experiencing the same apparently unsolvable problem 

with SL 7.5. Every time I closed the pc without locking it or I tried to 

restart it, the pc froze and the only thing to do was to force shut 

down. I have been using GNOME classic but with any other desktop as well 

(I tried them all) the problem persisted.



I upgraded yesterday to SL 7.6 and finally the issue disappeared. This 

morning I started again the session and SL was back to 7.5. When I start 

the session (I have windows 7 dual-boot) I can choose only between some 

versions of SL 7.5 and windows. The aesthetics is then exactly as it was 

with SL 7.5, but when I check which version I am running it shows SL 

7.6. The old issue came back and again it freezes every time.



Could someone help me with the matter? To summarize, the selections 

during boot phase, the aesthetics, and the old issues of SL 7.5 are 

back, but I upgraded to SL 7.6 and when I ask for the OS the output is



NAME="Scientific Linux"

VERSION="7.6 (Nitrogen)"

ID="scientific"

ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora"

VERSION_ID="7.6"

PRETTY_NAME="Scientific Linux 7.6 (Nitrogen)"

ANSI_COLOR="0;31"

CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:scientificlinux:scientificlinux:7.6:GA"

HOME_URL="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.scientificlinux.org__&d=DwICAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=Aqd5_VH4PlFI7GAYLgL25bt5Og8RNo4gM-d9z9NJh7A&s=QXGDFZ1WCt4tUiw6xnohs8oDWnt_8gJoHiC7vW6ikH8&e="

BUG_REPORT_URL="mailto:[log in to unmask]"



REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Scientific Linux 7"

REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=7.6

REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Scientific Linux"

REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="7.6"



Many thanks,

Stefano

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Stefano Vergani

Doctor of Philosophy Student

STFC Data Intensive Science Studentship Beneficiary

Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory

King's College, University of Cambridge