Alice Wonder
2018-Dec-06 16:56 UTC
[CentOS] Can't configure GDM after update to CentOS 7.6
On 12/06/2018 08:10 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:> Le 06/12/2018 ? 15:24, James Pearson a ?crit?: >> I suspect it might be something that has been left out in the rebase to >> GDM 3.28.1 - an earlier change log for GDM has: > > On a side note, I've now spent a day and a half trying to recover my > wrecked desktop profiles, with only a partial success. As it looks now, > I'll probably move all my desktop installations to openSUSE Leap 15 and > KDE 5 in the near future. > > As far as I can tell, rebasing GNOME in the middle of a minor update was > not a good idea. > > Cheers, > > Niki >They did a similar thing with NetworkManager few releases ago that caused all my servers to start grabbing randomized IPv6 addresses instead of static they previously grabbed. I don't understand why Red Hat makes these kind of changes in point releases - yet they won't update OpenSSL or PHP or Postfix in a point release. It's like they use /dev/random to determibe where they require API stability between point releases. -- For signature trust anchor (paranoid only need worry 'bout this): https://ca.pipfrosch.com/pipfrosch-cacert-pem.crt Webmail clients, sorry, out of luck, you can't import it. Get an actual e-mail app.
John Hodrien
2018-Dec-06 17:54 UTC
[CentOS] Can't configure GDM after update to CentOS 7.6
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, Alice Wonder wrote:> I don't understand why Red Hat makes these kind of changes in point releases > - yet they won't update OpenSSL or PHP or Postfix in a point release.Rebasing Gnome3 regularly I think has been one of Red Hat's best decisions, and one I can easily imagine a committee deciding against for reasons of wanting to minimise risk. Do you remember just how bad Gnome3 was in RHEL 7.0? It was unstable and insecure, certainly when used with nvidia drivers. I can't see how you could justify the effort it would have required to effectively support an unsupported version of Gnome3, and backporting I think would have been more than deeply unpleasant. They made a mistake in omitting a patch that wasn't caught in qa, and that's a shame. But then let's be honest, how many Red Hat customers actually use this feature? I do use it, and I didn't pick it up in my own testing, as our deployment must have created the directories as we had no issues. jh
Nicolas Kovacs
2018-Dec-06 20:30 UTC
[CentOS] Can't configure GDM after update to CentOS 7.6
Le 06/12/2018 ? 18:54, John Hodrien a ?crit :> > Do you remember just how bad Gnome3 was in RHEL 7.0? It was unstable > and insecure, certainly when used with nvidia drivers. I can't see > how you could justify the effort it would have required to > effectively support an unsupported version of Gnome3, and backporting > I think would have been more than deeply unpleasant.Or they could simply have gone with KDE 4, a stable and mature desktop at the time RHEL 7.0 was out. And not an abomination that had to be potty-trained from scratch again while steadily losing features every other minor upgrade. Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info at microlinux.fr T?l. : 04 66 63 10 32