Updates broke CentOS, can I fix it?
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Hi Guys,
Since I have been using VMWare free, taking “snapshots” with a bunch of images takes ages and uses lots of space… Needless to say I don’t have a decent backup. ( Still prototyping but if I can fix it will save me lots of time)I am running CentOS 7 in VMWare and let it apply updates, now VMWare just comes up with (Oh No! Something has gone wrong) I attached the log file.
I have removed the latest kernel following some guides online, and it didnt help, the old one doesnt start anyway, same issue.
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Assuming this is the same issue I have been seeing, CentOS 7 screwed up big time. My CentOS server just recently stopped being able to start after updating, and I have other people experiencing the same issue. This is the closest bug report I have been able to find: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=9860
The fix I used was to append
initcall_blacklist=clocksource_done_booting
right afterquiet
on the grub boot menu. Once it successfully boots edit/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
and permanently append that line to all of the boot entries that have aquiet
.If this does not work, you should still be able to recover your data by booting to a live ISO and mounting your disk.
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Thanks Jbob!
That’s a major stuff up by the CentOS people. -
Is this only affecting CentOS 7 inside VMWare?
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@Wayne-Workman its not just inside VMWare. I have had multiple physical servers with just CentOS 7 installed fail with this update.