dominic adair-jones wrote: > 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. >> Please stop top posting. It really sounds like a graphics driver error. Have you looked in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? mark