why UI is displayed when multi-user.target is used?

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I've just installed latest updates and now using 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64
To avoid UI loading during start-up i'm using multi-user.target:

[root@localhost ovazhnev]# systemctl get-default
multi-user.target

However after latest update I do see such screen during start-up (attached). I also have other problems, my Solarflare card doesn't work as expected, but I would like to address UI issue in this question.

Why I see "UI" when "multi-user.target" is set? How can I fix this problem/switch to "text-only" welcome screen?

I've rebooted several times but problem persist.

If I press esc I see "A start job is running for Network Manager Wait Online" Failed.
I'm not using NetworkManager.
I guess probably I should disable something from this list:

[ovazhnev@localhost ~]$ systemctl list-units | grep -i network
sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:03.3-0000:05:00.0-net-eno1.device loaded active plugged I350 Gigabit Network Connection
sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:03.3-0000:05:00.1-net-eno2.device loaded active plugged I350 Gigabit Network Connection
sys-subsystem-net-devices-eno1.device loaded active plugged I350 Gigabit Network Connection
sys-subsystem-net-devices-eno2.device loaded active plugged I350 Gigabit Network Connection
netcf-transaction.service loaded active exited Rollback uncommitted netcf network config change transactions
network.service loaded active exited LSB: Bring up/down networking
NetworkManager-wait-online.service loaded failed failed Network Manager Wait Online
rhel-import-state.service loaded active exited Import network configuration from initramfs
network-online.target loaded active active Network is Online
network.target loaded active active Network

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I've enabled/started NetworkManager and related things.
I've changed my "bonding" config files to "teaming"
However still network doesn't start:

[root@localhost ovazhnev]# systemctl status rhnsd.service
rhnsd.service - LSB: Starts the Spacewalk Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd)
Active: failed (Result: resources) since Wed 2015-03-11 23:56:10 MSK; 6min ago
Process: 3171 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd start (code=exited, status=6)

Mar 11 23:56:10 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts the Spacewalk Daemon...
Mar 11 23:56:10 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: PID file /var/run/rhnsd.pid not readable (yet?) after start.
Mar 11 23:56:10 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Starts the Spacewalk Daemon.
Mar 11 23:56:10 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit rhnsd.service entered failed state.

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That's plymouth. From its description:

Plymouth provides an attractive graphical boot animation in
place of the text messages that normally get shown. Text
messages are instead redirected to a log file for viewing
after boot.

Can you try removing "rhgb" from the kernel command line? See https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/System_Administrators_Guide/sec-Customizing_GRUB_2_Menu.html#sec-Editing_an_Entry for details. Or you can uninstall plymouth completely.

I already completely reinstalled RHEL 7 but still netowrking doesn't work with latest kernel. By some reason all my interfaces are down:

4: enp2s0f0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master team0 state DOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0f:53:22:79:d0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: enp2s0f1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master team0 state DOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0f:53:22:79:d0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
6: team0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mode DEFAULT
link/ether 00:0f:53:22:79:d0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

I've tried up them but this doesn't help, nothing reported:

[root@localhost ovazhnev]# ip link set up enp2s0f0
[root@localhost ovazhnev]# ip link set up enp2s0f1
[root@localhost ovazhnev]# ip link set up team0

If "3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64" is major update? Is it RHEL 7.1? Probably Solarflare drivers are not compatible with 7.1?

Yes, 3.10.0-229.el7 is the 7.1 kernel, released a week ago.

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with Solarflare. I see you asked about it some time ago in https://access.redhat.com/solutions/527403 but no one knew the answer. Could you please contact Red Hat Support so that you can get in touch with a subject matter expert?

It would be a good idea to ask the hardware vendor too, so that they are aware of the demand for this use case.

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