Please disregard this message. My additional muckings seem to have more or less fixed this including NOT saving journal files and using X to start gdm instead of Wayland. On 11/14/20 1:39 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > Hello all-- > > I have 3 CentOs 8 kernels insalled on my new machine -- > > 1. 4.18.0-193.14.2.el8_2.x86_6 > > 2. 4.18.0-193.19.1.el8_2.x86_64 << using this one for this graphical boot > > 3. 4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64 > > Only #3 will boot without a *Virtual console can not start *error > message but it hangs up trying to get into graphical mode, although it > will boot to multi-user. > > The first 2 seem to work reaosnably well in either graphical or > multi-user but I get a *Virtual console can not start *in boot > messages with both of these. > > Does anyone know anything about this? > > Having a heck of a time trying to prevent lock ups. > > Thanks. > >