Nick Howitt wrote:

That kernel has been in to community for a week with no ill reports, so lets hope it is something particular to your system.

During boot you will get a screen which allows you to select which kernel to boot from. You get 3-5 seconds to make your choice before it defaults to the top one. Can you move your cursor to the previous one (3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64) and see if that will boot?

I tried 3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64 and it also goes into Emergency Mode - I had to go back to 3.10.0.957.21.3.v7.x86_64 - it does not go into emergency mode @ boot.

However, the system is not stable and it appears the firewall is not starting due to an error with usr/sbin/firewall-start

error msg:
ip6tables v1.4.21: can't initialize ip6tables table 'filter' : Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps ip6tables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.

Any ideas? This update issue has been a huge time suck...

Thanks!