CentOS - Nov 2017 - gnome boot problem

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.
>
>
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On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +0000, dominic adair-jones
wrote:
> Ok that's what I figured Ive narrowed it down to Plymouth but I
haven't
> found much info on what the fix is.
No, plymouth is the process that controls the booting process. It is
not the problem. It is doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing -
waiting for a process to finish before going on to its next task. You
should use journalctl to see what task it is waiting on.

>  As of now I can ctl alt f2 and run
> startx to get to a desktop.
What graphics card do you have? 
>  When I try to run gui (such as keepnote or
> chromium) from within my vms now tho I get errors.
What errors.  

P.

going to run journalctl this evening when i get in and relay any errors i see.

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk>
wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +0000, dominic adair-jones wrote:
>> Ok that's what I figured Ive narrowed it down to Plymouth but I
haven't
>> found much info on what the fix is.
>
> No, plymouth is the process that controls the booting process. It is
> not the problem. It is doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing -
> waiting for a process to finish before going on to its next task. You
> should use journalctl to see what task it is waiting on.
>
>
>>  As of now I can ctl alt f2 and run
>> startx to get to a desktop.
>
> What graphics card do you have?
>
>>  When I try to run gui (such as keepnote or
>> chromium) from within my vms now tho I get errors.
>
> What errors.
>
> P.
>
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