Centos 7.3 reboot that hangs forever, fails to reboot. How to fix?

lancer78 · 04-09-2019, 11:46 PM

Hello,

I have recently bought a new Centos 7.3 workstation. After installing xrdp and SELinux (plus enabling it), I tried rebooting the machine so that the changes could take effect.

However, it now hangs (see below example), repeating the same message about disconnecting/finding my USB mouse without ever getting past this stage. I have tried to let it reboot for over an hour and that didn't work.

I believe it has something to do with my USB devices (based on what I gather online), but I am unsure what. I have tried removing my USB mouse and restarting, but that failed. Although the messages were gone, it still failed to reboot. I also tried removing my keyboard and restarting, but that didn't work either.

Is there something that is enabled that should be disabled or vice versa? Is there an incompatibility issue? What could the problem be?
I greatly appreciate your help! Thank you!

This is an example of what I get during the boot, with similar repeating output:

Code:

[ 1245.072793] hid-generic 0003:046D:C077:0019: input, hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:01:00.0-2/input0
[1429.609001] usb 3-2: USB disconnect, device number 24
[1431.130387] usb 3-2: new low-speed USB device number 25 using xhci_hcd
[1431.411122] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c077
[1431.411358] usb 3-2: New USB device strings : Mfr = 1, Product=2, SerialNumber = 0
[1431-411609] usb 3-2: Product: USB Optical Mouse
[1431-426375] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: Logitech
[1431-426375] input: Logitech USB Optical Mouse
as/devices/pci0000:00/00000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/input/input41

JJJCR · 04-10-2019, 02:47 AM

Have you tried removing the USB devices and booting the system? Check if it works normally.

If it boots normally, you might need to change the BIOS settings and disable USB booting.

Good luck!

lancer78 · 04-10-2019, 03:50 AM

Thanks for the comment JJJCR.

I had tried removing the USB devices and unfortunately the same problems at bootup remained.

How would I go about changing the USB booting in the BIOS setting? I do not know how to do that.

lancer78 · 04-11-2019, 12:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lancer78

Thanks for the comment JJJCR.

I had tried removing the USB devices and unfortunately the same problems at bootup remained.

How would I go about changing the USB booting in the BIOS setting? I do not know how to do that.

Ok, I disabled all USB devices from the BIOS. This didn't work either unfortunately. It's having trouble with the hard drive part in the first boot step.

lancer78 · 04-11-2019, 12:54 AM

After removing the mouse, which got rid of a lot of the previous repeating messages, I can more clearly see the following...

Code:

[13. 7105311] bridge: automatic filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables has been deprecated. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
...........
[13.604466] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): docker0: link is not ready
............
[13.8105361[ device virbr0-nic entered promiscuous mode
[   13.949141] virbr0: port 1(virbr0-nic) entered listening state
[   13.949579] virbr0: port1 (virbr0-nic) entered listening state
[   13.949579] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP) : virbr0: link is not ready
[   13.997682] virbr0: port 1(virbr0-nic) entered disabled state

And then it just hangs there indefinitely..
What could this be? Is this a graphics card issue? Thank you in advance.

P.S. BTW, the grub menu after BIOS says that my Centos version is 7.3.1611 (Core).. However when I do a "cat/etc/centos-release" from the Command Line it says "Centos 7.6.1810 (Core). What is going on here?

JJJCR · 04-11-2019, 01:51 AM

The NIC enter in a promiscuous mode, it seems that it listening to all traffic in your network. See this one: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...s-mode-756884/

When you bought the system it comes with CentOS already?

hopefully it's not a rigged system.

lancer78 · 04-11-2019, 02:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JJJCR

The NIC enter in a promiscuous mode, it seems that it listening to all traffic in your network. See this one: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...s-mode-756884/

When you bought the system it comes with CentOS already?

hopefully it's not a rigged system.

Hi JJJCR. Yes, I bought it from a computer vendor who had installed CentOS already.

lancer78 · 04-16-2019, 02:32 PM

Ok, I've decided to reinstall Centos to 7.6 and slowly/gradually add more complexity to the installation.

ceantuco · 04-17-2019, 03:57 PM

lancer78, do you still have boot issues with the system now that you have re-installed CentOS?

lancer78 · 04-17-2019, 05:35 PM

Hi ceantuco. Thanks for asking. After a bit of trial and error, I now appear to have a stable configuration (after also adding KDE Plasma Workspaces).
As far as I can tell, my previous issues may have been related to my having installed third party repositories. When I only installed the essentials, the problems went away.
I can boot normally now.
With a currently stable configuration, I should back everything up in case something goes wrong later!