Re: [CentOS] Gnome boot problem (again :-) )

[vychytraly .]

I ended up reinstalling the system. Nothing seemed to help. I am still not
sure what happened. But thank you very much for response :)

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Anthony K  wrote:

> On 25/11/17 12:09, vychytraly . wrote:
>
>> Hello friends
>>
>> I was using EL7 on gnome 3 for few months without any problem. Even 2
>> hours
>> ago I had the computer (Laptop running on Nvidia-Prime) turned on and
>> everything was working without flaw. But when I turned on the computer few
>> minutes ago, I got login screen (which does not usually happen, since I
>> have autologin turned on) and when I entered my login credentials I got
>> black screen and went back to login screen. Everytime I entered my
>> credentials the same thing happened so I was stuck in endless login loop.
>> At first I thought it was caused by gnome-extension I updated to new
>> version today.
>>
>> For me, I noticed (on a different terminal - Ctrl+F2) that when I warm
> boot the laptop, the Nvidia Card is not recognized and hence I get that
> login loop.  When this happens, I simply fully shutdown laptop for a minute
> and when I boot up again, the card is found and all is well.  I might as
> well mention that I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on my laptop so your problem
> might be different but just thought I might mention it just in case...
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/941259/nvrm-no-nvidia-
> graphics-adapter-found
>
> I used to do exactly like you - drop to shell and start messing with stuff
> until I realized that this is what was happening.  My workaround has been
> to simply shutdown, wait a minute and reboot - works always!
>
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Re: [CentOS] Gnome boot problem (again :-) )

[Anthony K]

On 25/11/17 12:09, vychytraly . wrote:

Hello friends

I was using EL7 on gnome 3 for few months without any problem. Even 2 hours
ago I had the computer (Laptop running on Nvidia-Prime) turned on and
everything was working without flaw. But when I turned on the computer few
minutes ago, I got login screen (which does not usually happen, since I
have autologin turned on) and when I entered my login credentials I got
black screen and went back to login screen. Everytime I entered my
credentials the same thing happened so I was stuck in endless login loop.
At first I thought it was caused by gnome-extension I updated to new
version today.

For me, I noticed (on a different terminal - Ctrl+F2) that when I warm 
boot the laptop, the Nvidia Card is not recognized and hence I get that 
login loop.  When this happens, I simply fully shutdown laptop for a 
minute and when I boot up again, the card is found and all is well.  I 
might as well mention that I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on my laptop so your 
problem might be different but just thought I might mention it just in 
case...


https://askubuntu.com/questions/941259/nvrm-no-nvidia-graphics-adapter-found

I used to do exactly like you - drop to shell and start messing with 
stuff until I realized that this is what was happening.  My workaround 
has been to simply shutdown, wait a minute and reboot - works always!


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Re: [CentOS] Gnome boot problem (again :-) )

[dominic adair-jones]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017, 8:09 PM vychytraly .  wrote:

> Hello friends
>
> I was using EL7 on gnome 3 for few months without any problem. Even 2 hours
> ago I had the computer (Laptop running on Nvidia-Prime) turned on and
> everything was working without flaw. But when I turned on the computer few
> minutes ago, I got login screen (which does not usually happen, since I
> have autologin turned on) and when I entered my login credentials I got
> black screen and went back to login screen. Everytime I entered my
> credentials the same thing happened so I was stuck in endless login loop.
> At first I thought it was caused by gnome-extension I updated to new
> version today.
>
> So I restarted the pc, went to runlevel 3, renamed the folder with
> extension in
> /home/user/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/"extension_name" to another
> name as a quick and dirty way to disable it. I restarted the pc and now I
> can't even get to login screen. I get stuck at text saying: "A start job is
> running for Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to quit (25s / no limit)".
>
> I can go to another cmdline session and when I try to run exec
> gnome-session nothing happens, I just get logged off the cmdline session
> and must log in again.
>
> When I try to run startx my screen blinks and I get this output:
> xauth: file /home/user/serverauth.2372 does not exist.
>
> Output from command systemctl status gdm says:
> Starting gnome display manager
> Started gnome display manager
> GLib-GObject: g_object_set_valist: object class "GdmSession" has no
> property named "display-is-initial", GdmDisplay: display lasted 2.909...
> Seconds
> gdm_display_finish: assertion 'GDM_IS_DISPLAY (self)' failed
>
> journalctl -r gives me these errors:
> vgargb: this pci device is not a vga device
> gdm_display_finish: assertion 'GDM_IS_Display (self)' failed
> Process 1165 (gnome-shell) of user 42 killed by SIGSEGV - dumping core
> Process 1194 (gnome-shell) of user 42 killed by SIGSEGV - ignoring
> (repeated crash)
> Unrecoverable failure in component org.gnome.Shell.desktop
>
> Please could you help me with finding the problem? I am not really sure
> what could be the issue, since I did not change or update any packages
> today, nor changed the configuration files. Only change I am aware of was
> the update of the gnome-extension.
>
> Thank you very much and have a nice day
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[CentOS] Gnome boot problem (again :-) )

[vychytraly .]

Hello friends

I was using EL7 on gnome 3 for few months without any problem. Even 2 hours
ago I had the computer (Laptop running on Nvidia-Prime) turned on and
everything was working without flaw. But when I turned on the computer few
minutes ago, I got login screen (which does not usually happen, since I
have autologin turned on) and when I entered my login credentials I got
black screen and went back to login screen. Everytime I entered my
credentials the same thing happened so I was stuck in endless login loop.
At first I thought it was caused by gnome-extension I updated to new
version today.

So I restarted the pc, went to runlevel 3, renamed the folder with
extension in
/home/user/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/"extension_name" to another
name as a quick and dirty way to disable it. I restarted the pc and now I
can't even get to login screen. I get stuck at text saying: "A start job is
running for Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to quit (25s / no limit)".

I can go to another cmdline session and when I try to run exec
gnome-session nothing happens, I just get logged off the cmdline session
and must log in again.

When I try to run startx my screen blinks and I get this output:
xauth: file /home/user/serverauth.2372 does not exist.

Output from command systemctl status gdm says:
Starting gnome display manager
Started gnome display manager
GLib-GObject: g_object_set_valist: object class "GdmSession" has no
property named "display-is-initial", GdmDisplay: display lasted 2.909...
Seconds
gdm_display_finish: assertion 'GDM_IS_DISPLAY (self)' failed

journalctl -r gives me these errors:
vgargb: this pci device is not a vga device
gdm_display_finish: assertion 'GDM_IS_Display (self)' failed
Process 1165 (gnome-shell) of user 42 killed by SIGSEGV - dumping core
Process 1194 (gnome-shell) of user 42 killed by SIGSEGV - ignoring
(repeated crash)
Unrecoverable failure in component org.gnome.Shell.desktop

Please could you help me with finding the problem? I am not really sure
what could be the issue, since I did not change or update any packages
today, nor changed the configuration files. Only change I am aware of was
the update of the gnome-extension.

Thank you very much and have a nice day
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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[dominic adair-jones]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Johnny Hughes  wrote:
> On 11/17/2017 09:04 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> dominic adair-jones wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:14 AM,   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  wrote:
>> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +, 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.
>>
>
> This sounds like some kind of GDM issue to me.
>
> I am not sure the OP has ever answered the question of what video card
> is installed.
>
> OP:  If you look at Xorg.0.log that should tell you if there is a
> problem starting X.  If you use /var/log/messages, dmseg, and/or
> journalctl it might give you an init type error output.
>
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thanks, looking thru the log i attached i did notice the gdm error. As
a workaround i installed/switched over to lightdm. still going to
figure out what went wrong with gdm.
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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[Johnny Hughes]

On 11/17/2017 09:04 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> dominic adair-jones wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:14 AM,   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  wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +, 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.
> 

This sounds like some kind of GDM issue to me.

I am not sure the OP has ever answered the question of what video card
is installed.

OP:  If you look at Xorg.0.log that should tell you if there is a
problem starting X.  If you use /var/log/messages, dmseg, and/or
journalctl it might give you an init type error output.



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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[dominic adair-jones]

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,   wrote:
> dominic adair-jones wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:14 AM,   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  wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +, 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
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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[m . roth]

dominic adair-jones wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:14 AM,   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  wrote:
 On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +, 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.

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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[dominic adair-jones]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:14 AM,   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  wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +, 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.
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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[m . roth]

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  wrote:
>> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +, 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?

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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[dominic adair-jones]

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  wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +, 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.
>
> P.
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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[dominic adair-jones]

Ok so I tried alt+d it switched over to text mode. I didn't see any error
it booted right to a black screen. I can ctl+alt+f2 to get to another
screen and I still get the "a start job is running for wait for Plymouth
boot screen to quit"

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 5:55 PM Gordon Messmer 
wrote:

> On 11/16/2017 02:01 PM, dominic adair-jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 4:55 PM Gordon Messmer 
> > wrote:
> >> Alt+d will switch to the text output of the init process.  Press that
> >> combo as soon as you see the boot animation.
> > Not understanding. At what point in the boot process should I be doing
> that
>
> ... as soon as you see the boot animation.  When you see the grey
> screen, use Alt+d on the keyboard to switch to the text output. There,
> you will typically see text that describes why the boot process isn't
> completing.
>
> > and why would I need to do that at all?
>
> Because long ago the debugging text was deemed confusing, and a
> graphical wallpaper was placed over it.
>
> > Seems like it's something wrong
> > with the Plymouth and plymouth-scirpt packages.
>
> That's unlikely.  Those packages are probably just hiding the actual
> problem.
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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[Pete Biggs]

On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +, 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.  

P.

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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[Gordon Messmer]

On 11/16/2017 02:01 PM, dominic adair-jones wrote:

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 4:55 PM Gordon Messmer 
wrote:

Alt+d will switch to the text output of the init process.  Press that
combo as soon as you see the boot animation.

Not understanding. At what point in the boot process should I be doing that


... as soon as you see the boot animation.  When you see the grey 
screen, use Alt+d on the keyboard to switch to the text output. There, 
you will typically see text that describes why the boot process isn't 
completing.



and why would I need to do that at all?


Because long ago the debugging text was deemed confusing, and a 
graphical wallpaper was placed over it.



Seems like it's something wrong
with the Plymouth and plymouth-scirpt packages.


That's unlikely.  Those packages are probably just hiding the actual 
problem.


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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[dominic adair-jones]

Ok that's what I figured Ive narrowed it down to Plymouth but I haven't
found much info on what the fix is. As of now I can ctl alt f2 and run
startx to get to a desktop. When I try to run gui (such as keepnote or
chromium) from within my vms now tho I get errors.

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 5:33 PM Pete Biggs  wrote:

> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 16:28 -0500, dominic adair-jones wrote:
> > greetings all. running centos 7. i recently performed an upgrade and
> > the server rebooted later in the night. now everytime i start my
> > server its sits at the grey gnome background. i can hit ctl+atl+f2 to
> > get to another console and the error message states "a start job is
> > running for wait for plymouth boot screen to quit". i can ssh into the
> > server but i dont see any obvious issues. this is the brain of my
> > network and houses all my vms and documents. any help would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
>
> There's lots of reasons for this - try googling for that message.
>
> A common one is bad video drivers, especially nVidia - nVidia helpfully
> stop supporting certain older cards in the newer drivers, so if you
> have a card that drops support in the most recent driver, you have to
> specifically use an old driver version.
>
> But basically anything that holds up the boot process will eventually
> cause this message - it's not really an error message either, it's just
> telling you that it's waiting for something to happen - the problem is
> elsewhere.
>
> P.
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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[Phil Perry]

On 16/11/17 22:32, Pete Biggs wrote:

On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 16:28 -0500, dominic adair-jones wrote:

greetings all. running centos 7. i recently performed an upgrade and
the server rebooted later in the night. now everytime i start my
server its sits at the grey gnome background. i can hit ctl+atl+f2 to
get to another console and the error message states "a start job is
running for wait for plymouth boot screen to quit". i can ssh into the
server but i dont see any obvious issues. this is the brain of my
network and houses all my vms and documents. any help would be greatly
appreciated.



There's lots of reasons for this - try googling for that message.

A common one is bad video drivers, especially nVidia - nVidia helpfully
stop supporting certain older cards in the newer drivers, so if you
have a card that drops support in the most recent driver, you have to
specifically use an old driver version.



...and if you use the nvidia driver packages from elrepo, the 
yum-plugin-nvidia package prevents yum from updating nvidia drivers on 
older hardware where support for that hardware has been dropped.


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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[Pete Biggs]

On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 16:28 -0500, dominic adair-jones wrote:
> greetings all. running centos 7. i recently performed an upgrade and
> the server rebooted later in the night. now everytime i start my
> server its sits at the grey gnome background. i can hit ctl+atl+f2 to
> get to another console and the error message states "a start job is
> running for wait for plymouth boot screen to quit". i can ssh into the
> server but i dont see any obvious issues. this is the brain of my
> network and houses all my vms and documents. any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 

There's lots of reasons for this - try googling for that message.

A common one is bad video drivers, especially nVidia - nVidia helpfully
stop supporting certain older cards in the newer drivers, so if you
have a card that drops support in the most recent driver, you have to
specifically use an old driver version.

But basically anything that holds up the boot process will eventually
cause this message - it's not really an error message either, it's just
telling you that it's waiting for something to happen - the problem is
elsewhere.

P.


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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[dominic adair-jones]

Not understanding. At what point in the boot process should I be doing that
and why would I need to do that at all? Seems like it's something wrong
with the Plymouth and plymouth-scirpt packagesI uninstalled them and
rebooted I didn't get stuck in a loop but I didn't have a gui. I
reinstalled and I'm back at the Plymouth wait error.

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 4:55 PM Gordon Messmer 
wrote:

> On 11/16/2017 01:28 PM, dominic adair-jones wrote:
> > now everytime i start my
> > server its sits at the grey gnome background.
>
>
> Alt+d will switch to the text output of the init process.  Press that
> combo as soon as you see the boot animation.
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Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

[Gordon Messmer]

On 11/16/2017 01:28 PM, dominic adair-jones wrote:

now everytime i start my
server its sits at the grey gnome background.



Alt+d will switch to the text output of the init process.  Press that 
combo as soon as you see the boot animation.


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[CentOS] gnome boot problem

[dominic adair-jones]

greetings all. running centos 7. i recently performed an upgrade and
the server rebooted later in the night. now everytime i start my
server its sits at the grey gnome background. i can hit ctl+atl+f2 to
get to another console and the error message states "a start job is
running for wait for plymouth boot screen to quit". i can ssh into the
server but i dont see any obvious issues. this is the brain of my
network and houses all my vms and documents. any help would be greatly
appreciated.
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