Re: upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

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> Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:32:00 -0400
> From: Pete Geenhuizen <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> On 09/19/17 11:58, Richard wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 11:53:24 -0400
>>> From: Pete Geenhuizen <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> 
>>> On 09/19/17 11:44, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
>>>>> I upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 over the weekend.  Everything went
>>>>> well except that I can't login because the screen is black with
>>>>> a cursor.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If reboot boot the 7.3 kernel 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 kernel
>>>>> everything works just fine, so my guess is that there's a kernel
>>>>> issue with the hardware, specifically the Skylake processor.
>>>>> 
>>>> Video, not the CPU, unless the CPU's also doing video.
>>>> 
>>>>       mark, fighting 7.4 and two users who need the 304 NVidia
>>>>       drivers
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Agreed if I was using an add-on video card, however I'm just using
>>> the no-board video.
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm using 7.4/Mate on a Dell machine with Skylake i5-7500/Graphics
>> 630, without any issues. I installed 7.3 then did initial updates
>> via CR, and then the final ones when released the other day. Had to
>> change my default mate theme (due to gtk2/3 issues) but otherwise
>> all has been fine.
>> 
> Hmm I did the same thing other than the Dell and i5-7500, I didn't
> use CR but waited for the official release.  I wonder if I'm
> experiencing the same theme issue with my mate these  If that is
> the what should I look for to verify that gtk2/3 is the issue, or
> what theme are you using?
> 
> Pete
> 

The mate-gtk2/3 issue effects windows/menus/scrollbars and the like,
not the login screen. See:

<https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2017-August/165955.html>

for that issue. I switched to the Adwaita theme, as suggested there.



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