greetings all. running centos 7. i recently performed an upgrade and the server rebooted later in the night. now everytime i start my server its sits at the grey gnome background. i can hit ctl+atl+f2 to get to another console and the error message states "a start job is running for wait for plymouth boot screen to quit". i can ssh into the server but i dont see any obvious issues. this is the brain of my network and houses all my vms and documents. any help would be greatly appreciated.
On 11/16/2017 01:28 PM, dominic adair-jones wrote:> now everytime i start my > server its sits at the grey gnome background.Alt+d will switch to the text output of the init process.? Press that combo as soon as you see the boot animation.
Not understanding. At what point in the boot process should I be doing that and why would I need to do that at all? Seems like it's something wrong with the Plymouth and plymouth-scirpt packages....I uninstalled them and rebooted I didn't get stuck in a loop but I didn't have a gui. I reinstalled and I'm back at the Plymouth wait error. On Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 4:55 PM Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote:> On 11/16/2017 01:28 PM, dominic adair-jones wrote: > > now everytime i start my > > server its sits at the grey gnome background. > > > Alt+d will switch to the text output of the init process. Press that > combo as soon as you see the boot animation. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 16:28 -0500, dominic adair-jones wrote:> greetings all. running centos 7. i recently performed an upgrade and > the server rebooted later in the night. now everytime i start my > server its sits at the grey gnome background. i can hit ctl+atl+f2 to > get to another console and the error message states "a start job is > running for wait for plymouth boot screen to quit". i can ssh into the > server but i dont see any obvious issues. this is the brain of my > network and houses all my vms and documents. any help would be greatly > appreciated. >There's lots of reasons for this - try googling for that message. A common one is bad video drivers, especially nVidia - nVidia helpfully stop supporting certain older cards in the newer drivers, so if you have a card that drops support in the most recent driver, you have to specifically use an old driver version. But basically anything that holds up the boot process will eventually cause this message - it's not really an error message either, it's just telling you that it's waiting for something to happen - the problem is elsewhere. P.
On 16/11/17 22:32, Pete Biggs wrote:> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 16:28 -0500, dominic adair-jones wrote: >> greetings all. running centos 7. i recently performed an upgrade and >> the server rebooted later in the night. now everytime i start my >> server its sits at the grey gnome background. i can hit ctl+atl+f2 to >> get to another console and the error message states "a start job is >> running for wait for plymouth boot screen to quit". i can ssh into the >> server but i dont see any obvious issues. this is the brain of my >> network and houses all my vms and documents. any help would be greatly >> appreciated. >> > > There's lots of reasons for this - try googling for that message. > > A common one is bad video drivers, especially nVidia - nVidia helpfully > stop supporting certain older cards in the newer drivers, so if you > have a card that drops support in the most recent driver, you have to > specifically use an old driver version. >...and if you use the nvidia driver packages from elrepo, the yum-plugin-nvidia package prevents yum from updating nvidia drivers on older hardware where support for that hardware has been dropped.
Ok that's what I figured Ive narrowed it down to Plymouth but I haven't found much info on what the fix is. As of now I can ctl alt f2 and run startx to get to a desktop. When I try to run gui (such as keepnote or chromium) from within my vms now tho I get errors. On Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 5:33 PM Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote:> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 16:28 -0500, dominic adair-jones wrote: > > greetings all. running centos 7. i recently performed an upgrade and > > the server rebooted later in the night. now everytime i start my > > server its sits at the grey gnome background. i can hit ctl+atl+f2 to > > get to another console and the error message states "a start job is > > running for wait for plymouth boot screen to quit". i can ssh into the > > server but i dont see any obvious issues. this is the brain of my > > network and houses all my vms and documents. any help would be greatly > > appreciated. > > > > There's lots of reasons for this - try googling for that message. > > A common one is bad video drivers, especially nVidia - nVidia helpfully > stop supporting certain older cards in the newer drivers, so if you > have a card that drops support in the most recent driver, you have to > specifically use an old driver version. > > But basically anything that holds up the boot process will eventually > cause this message - it's not really an error message either, it's just > telling you that it's waiting for something to happen - the problem is > elsewhere. > > P. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >