kernel update dependency failed for activation socket spice redhat

[ron7000]

packagekit did an auto update on reboot. I went from 3.10.0-957.5.1.el7 to 3.10-0.957.10.1.el7.
Failed to boot into graphical.target; it tries but bounces back to verbose boot screen and shows this:

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[info]      dev/virtio\x2dports-com.redhat.spice.0.device is not active
[depend]    dependency failed for activation socket for spice guest agent daemon
[info]      dev/virtio\x2dports-com.redhat.spice.0.device is not active
[depend]    dependency failed for activation socket for spice guest agent daemon

I can ALT-F2 and drop to login prompt, and other errors that will pop up a minute or so later are things like

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ACHI does not support sleep

usb1-2 reset high speed device number 2 using xhci_ncd

What do I do?
I can choose the previous boot menu entry in grub and everything works.

[desertcat]

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What do I do?
I can choose the previous boot menu entry in grub and everything works.

This *probably* will NOT work, but it may... I did not have your problem, even close, but I was getting a whole bunch of error messages. You could try to turn off the computer and kill power to the machine (ie. Unplug the beastie) to clear the memory, plug it back in, go into BIOS and boot from the Boot priority list. This is what I did and all my errors went away -- POOF! Like I said this PROBABLY will NOT work for you, but is worth a shot.

[TrevorH]

Failed to boot into graphical.target; it tries but bounces back to verbose boot screen and shows this:

Have you previously installed video drivers from e.g. nvidia/ATI/VirtualBox etc? If so then you need to reinstall them each and every time the kernel is updated.

[ron7000]

so yeah it was the nvidia driver... i installed manually via NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.43.run at runlevel 3.
Didn't follow your advice about nvidia-kmod from elrepo, yeah yeah i know

funny that the errors showing up were what they were. But after Alt-F2 I was able to do log in and do

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systemctl isolate multi-user.target
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.43.run
reboot

All is well now on 3.10-0.957.10.1.
I also installed dkms so when executing NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.43.run it prompted me if I wanted to make use of DKMS and I said yes... will see how that works out.