CentOS - Oct 2017 - I do not love thee, kernel-3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64

I've been having a lot of issues with video, for example. However, this
one... I have a user with a Dell R730. I install kernel and kernel devel,
and the rest of the full update, and rebooted.

Nope. 100% kernel panic, right around the time it switches root. I even
rebuilt the initramfs, nope.

And speaking of kernel panics, has *anyone* ever considered that all the
data dumped to the console during one results in NOT BEING ABLE TO READ
ANYTHING BUT THE LAST 24 or less, mostly less, lines?

      mark, frustrated, removed that kernel

On 11/10/17 19:28, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> I've been having a lot of issues with video, for example. However, this
> one... I have a user with a Dell R730. I install kernel and kernel devel,
> and the rest of the full update, and rebooted.
> 
> Nope. 100% kernel panic, right around the time it switches root. I even
> rebuilt the initramfs, nope.
> 
> And speaking of kernel panics, has *anyone* ever considered that all the
> data dumped to the console during one results in NOT BEING ABLE TO READ
> ANYTHING BUT THE LAST 24 or less, mostly less, lines?
> 
>       mark, frustrated, removed that kernel
Ah, the good old days of running a VAXcluster with hardcopy consoles.

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J Martin Rushton wrote:
> On 11/10/17 19:28, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> I've been having a lot of issues with video, for example. However,
this
>> one... I have a user with a Dell R730. I install kernel and kernel
>> devel, and the rest of the full update, and rebooted.
>>
>> Nope. 100% kernel panic, right around the time it switches root. I even
>> rebuilt the initramfs, nope.
>>
>> And speaking of kernel panics, has *anyone* ever considered that all
the
>> data dumped to the console during one results in NOT BEING ABLE TO READ
>> ANYTHING BUT THE LAST 24 or less, mostly less, lines?
>>
>>       mark, frustrated, removed that kernel
>
> Ah, the good old days of running a VAXcluster with hardcopy consoles.
>
Smartass. I never had that.... But, really, what's the point of dumping
many, many lines of data... when it cannot be read? Why not assume that
it's going to happen on a normal terminal, and dump no more than 25
80-char lines? So the admin might maybe possibly have a clue as to what
caused it?

        mark