None of the previous kernels will boot properly. On Monday, July 3, 2017 5:58 AM, "m.roth@xxxxxxxxx" <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Chris Olson wrote: <snip> > I went on vacation right after an update to one of our virtual CentOS 6.9 > systems so it was not restarted for a period of time. Now it will not > complete boot-up with the gnome display never fully launched. A progress > bar at the bottom of the start-up screen never reaches completion. We have > not been able to detect a running system on the network. > > Two options for stopping the CentOS 6.9 virtual machine have been tried. > One is to "power off" and the other is to "send the shutdown message". > Both of these options appear to work properly. The shutdown output <snip> Suggestion: boot to the previous kernel. If that works, reinstall the update, then reboot to it. We had real issues months back, where a yum-cron appeared to half-ignore the exclude=kernel line in yum.conf, and it would consistently fail to boot, but once the above was done, reinstalling the latest kernel, *then* it rebooted with no problem. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos