CentOS

I have been running CentOS 7, for around 1 year, on a laptop, with few issues. Yesterday I removed the SSD from the laptop, inserted an HDD (to RTZ it), and this morning, put the SSD with CentOS on it back in the laptop. I was unable to boot in. I got the following error messages: Failed to open \EF...

Same issue with slow unlock for me, too:

Linux localhost.localdomain 3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 25 20:13:58 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Fixed. The issue was that a package was not allowing updates (EPEL problem after upgrading to CentOS 7.4). After downgrading the problem package, and running yum update , I can boot in, but systemctl default is now multi-user.target (runlevel3). Running systemctl set-default graphical.target has now...

When I boot my CentOS laptop, after entering encryption password, it normally boots to a GUI login screen and then boots into Gnome3. Now though, after entering encryption password, the CentOS 7 wallpaper is loaded, but it never loads the graphical login screen. If I boot into emergency mode, 'start...