yessir i can alt+ctl+f2 into another tty and run startx from there to get into my desktop as of this morning the "plymouth wait" error was running for about 6 hours whatever is causing it to hang never completes the screen does go into graphical mode..i unlock my volume and then the grey background with the 7 and spinning white circle comes up...the circle spins out and then the screen just sits there it never boots into the actual desktop. this happened about a month ago i ran a kernel update, then clean up. i went to sleep and my server shut off. I turned it back on and have been experiencing this issue ever since. I removed plymouth and then logged into the 2nd tty and just left it running for about a month since its my host and i had alot of stuff on there i needed to access. i have a little downtime for the next few days so im trying to go back and get this figured out. On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 10:04 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > dominic adair-jones wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:14 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >>> 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? >> sorry about that first time publicly posting like this. I will check >> this evening. I did remove the x0rg drivers and plymouth but didnt >> check the logs as it got late. > > Reading the thread in this post, I see you saying that startx works.... > That would suggest that graphics works, but something in trying to go into > runlevel 5 is funny. > > Stupid question: how long have you waited? C7 seems to take an > unconsciously long time for the X login to come up. > > Do you see the screen go into graphical mode during the boot? You know, > when it'll go black, then smaller fonts, and more lines on the screen? > > Starting to wonder about a timing issue, with a driver not loading. > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos