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.