[Beowulf] Centos 7 news

[Jonathan Engwall]

Now 957.27 crashes in a kernel panic.
RedHat has this exactly:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3615761&ved=2ahUKEwismoDOisTkAhXOrZ4KHbjCALkQFjAAegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw1RpdNZfX3ZuaDG_Cdr8VEv&cshid=1568045999623
I did recently add an older NVIDIA nvs card. Also, this similar behavior
accompanied Ubuntu 17.04. A short lived Ubuntu which nearly killed the
perfectly useful 16.04.
Perhaps updating 7.1 is a bad idea at this time.
Jonathan Engwall

On Sat, Sep 7, 2019, 8:54 AM Jonathan Engwall <
engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:

> ...and I am done trying to find it. This the same blast of updates that
> turned my machine into a remote NFS peer somehow.
> Jonathan Engwall
>
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2019, 8:38 AM Jonathan Engwall <
> engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Supposedly a movement away from autoconf.h and auto.conf is underway.
>> This may relate to the "invalid" configuration of kernel 1062.
>> /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/######/build/make.log suggests I run make 'oldconfig
>> && make prepare' on kernel src.
>> This seems reasonable.
>> Jonathan Engwall
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 10:31 PM Jonathan Engwall <
>> engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Beowulf
>>> I had trouble with this 800+ M "bugfix" tonight. First, my machine
>>> failed to launch a vnc (thank you) then mounted a remote nfs file system.
>>> Then hang.........ctrl alt f2 to the rescue.
>>> After a couple hours I narrowed the problem down using groupinstall.
>>> The new kernel, in the end, would not (and did not) build the module for
>>> my new workstation card.
>>>
>>> Jonathan Engwall
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019, 10:39 PM Chris Samuel <chris at csamuel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Friday, 30 August 2019 10:27:08 PM PDT Jonathan Engwall wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > 1300+ packages marked for update, if this effects you.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like CentOS 7.7 has just come out.
>>>>
>>>> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-August/173310.html
>>>>
>>>> Heaps of announcements of the new packages here:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2019-August/thread.html
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>> Chris
>>>> --
>>>>   Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Berkeley, CA, USA
>>>>
>>>>
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