RHEL 7.4 Installation
When I ran sudo yum update today, a huge amount of packages were offered and obviously the updates would upgrade the system from RHEL 7.3 to RHEL 7.4 because among them were packages from the GNOME 3.22 version. A lot of dependency problems were reported, which is exactly what I had expected : jumping from GNOME 3.14 to 3.22 is a big change, so (as always) I strongly recommend to perform a clean installation of RHEL 7.4 !
Cheers :)
Christian
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Hi Christian, you are talking about rhel 7.4 Beta right? This is a complete different story! Of course there can be some some issues when updating to a Release that is not GA. In my point of view, your recommendation is not tenable at all.
Generally there are no great impacts when updating to a new minor release. This is why you are using an paid enterprise grade OS. There is no need for a "clean install" if you are updating to a higher minor release in the most cases since API & ABI compatibility is guaranteed by Red Hat.
Sorry just seen the release notes, my bad :-) but still your recommendations do not make any sense without more detailed information.
Really Gnome on a RHEL Server or RHEL as Workstation OS? If you like the pain, go for it, but I think there are plenty of options to have a more pleasant life ;-)
Greetings
Steven
Clean install!! really?! The reason why I am using RHEL on my desktop is trying to avoid those words actually. clean install for me means being off for at least 2 days to fix the related issues, and Steven is right its a PAIN.
I'm seeing a dependency loop upgrading RHEL 7.3 Workstation to RHEL 7.4. Seems to be involving libgtk, libgdk, and libnotify. It's been running to 2 hours now, starting to think Christian's advice is a good idea.
Yes, as Christian mentioned there would be issues noticed and sometimes it would not be much difficult to fix but sometimes it would be tiresome. Most of the time as I also noticed it is because of the "gnome" or "x window" based packages which gets broken on the way or could be due to application throwing error after upgrade. In my opinion we could keep these issues to minimal if we choose to upgrade a system without GUI. Even the Red Hat upgrade path from RHEL 6 to 7 supports only base server without GUI or desktop. I could see here that all Gnome and KDE related packages are not supported https://access.redhat.com/solutions/637583.
This is disturbing 7.4, I am guessing is not a new release. We went through a RHEL 7.2 to 7.3 upgrade without much pain. Is 7.3 to 7.4 is a pain, then I think Redhat should fix it.
Hi Robert,
After yum update RHEL 7.4 platform is stable, efficient, and resourceful but install the Server with GUI and all that good stuff are questionable. Why is the stability of Server with GUI a bust? Walking on egg shells. After yum update the yum groupinstall gnome-desktop x11 Fonts and yum groupinstall "Server with GUI" hangs my RHEL 7.4 with Server and GUI three times. This made me experience in backup, snapshot, and reinstallation. The pain is the web server, application, and database rebuild. Those Eclipse APIs Firefox...etc, and GUIs are needed as a fully functioning OS. So looking for a robust stability for Server with GUI yum install.
You can do a yum update from a lower minor version of RHEL 7.x (such as rhel 7.2, rhel 7.3) straight to rhel 7.4 without a clean installation/reinstallation or kickstart. Doing a major upgrade from a major release of Red Hat (such as rhel 5.x to 7.x or going from rhel6.x to 7.x) would highly recommend a clean reload or kickstart.
We've upgraded dozens & dozens of systems from 7.3 to 7.4 with no issue (workstations/servers) (had to deal with some NVidia annoyances though on workstation, but not too bad).
GM Gurus.
I have a typical requirement where I have 240 GB hard disk and I need to install RHEL 7.x on it with boot envi (BE) and alternate boot envi (ABE) on a same disk by partitioning the hard disk into 120 GB and 120 GB. Also Once I install it on one partition successfully on BE I need to sync (mirror) the ABE all the time. If I need any maintenance I need to split the mirror and have updates on BE and if all looks good I need to reattach the ABE.
Can any one please help me with any document/blog that I can refer to or if some one can provide me the procedure that would a great help and much appreciated.
Regards Venu.
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