[CentOS] gnome boot problem

Fri Nov 17 14:14:14 UTC 2017
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

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