After trying the suggestions offered here and various other suggestions that I found through various searches I finally solved the problem by ditching the on board graphics and installing a graphics card. On 09/19/17 11:01, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: > I upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 over the weekend. Everything went well > except that I can't login because the screen is black with a cursor. > > If reboot boot the 7.3 kernel 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 kernel > everything works just fine, so my guess is that there's a kernel issue > with the hardware, specifically the Skylake processor. > > Has anyone else run into this problem and if so can how I resolve the > problem other than using the previous kernel? > > ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Z170M-PLUS > VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06) > Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz Skylake > > Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. > > Pete > -- Unencumbered by the thought process. -- Click and Clack the Tappet brothers -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.