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 >