Problem with kernels 3.16.2-200 and 3.16.2-201

Sudhir Khanger sudhir at sudhirkhanger.com
Sat Sep 20 18:22:14 UTC 2014


On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Michael D. Setzer II
<mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
> Ran the update today, and saw the new kernels, but then had about 2/3 of
> the machines have the same issue with just getting a blank screen after the
> reboot and trying to load the kernel as I had seen with the 3.16.2-200 kernel.
>
> The machines are all new Lenovo ThinkCentre systems from January, so not
> clear what is going on. Had gone back to the previous 3.15.10 kernel that
> work fine with all. Not sure why the 1/3 booted? Would expect all or none? I
> have found that using the edit option on grub menu and modifying it would
> get it to work sometimes. Sometimes just using edit and F10 with no changes
> would work, sometime entering a blank line would work. Sometime removing
> the  rhgb or quiet would do it??
>
> modified the /etc/default/grub and removed the rhgb quiet and used the
> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> and then did a test and all 20 machines booted just fine. Have no clue as to
> why that would have an effect? Didn't see any error messages, so not clear
> on why 2/3rds of machine wouldn't boot after the yum update with the new
> kernels.
>
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http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=578850

Have you tried this? My system wouldn't go back to desktop if screen
went off on kernel-3.16.2. I don't seem to have that problem with
kernel-3.16.3.

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