Hi, So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the GUI Any suggestions on how I can get this to work? Thank you Keith
centos-bounces at centos.org schrieb am 11.07.2011 16:43:11:> Keith Beeby <k.beeby at albion.co.uk> > Gesendet von: centos-bounces at centos.org > > 11.07.2011 16:43 > > Bitte antworten an > CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > > An > > CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > > Kopie > > Thema > > [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI > > Hi, > > So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've > setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into > the GUI but v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to > launch the GUI > > Any suggestions on how I can get this to work? > > Thank you > > Keith > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosHello Keith, I've installed it yesterday on a HP Microserver with GUI with the second entry from the boot list. For me it works . But I haven't installed a gui on the server, just only the installation. Gru? Andreas Reschke -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110711/a796f1bf/attachment-0002.html>
This might seem obvious but have you checked to see if you have X or any GUI desktops installed? AK Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
On Mon, July 11, 2011 16:43, Keith Beeby wrote:> Hi, > > So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup > Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but > v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the GUI > > Any suggestions on how I can get this to work? >perhaps:: yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
At Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:43:11 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:> > Hi, > > So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the GUI > > Any suggestions on how I can get this to work?Why do you want a GUI on a *server*?> > Thank you > > Keith > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments
On 7/11/11, Keith Beeby <k.beeby at albion.co.uk> wrote:> Hi, > > So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup > Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but > v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the GUIIf I'm not mistaken, the "Server" option does not include the GUI so you'll have to install the GUI group manually as others have suggested.
On 7/11/2011 10:43 AM, Keith Beeby wrote:> Hi, > > So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the GUI > > Any suggestions on how I can get this to work? > > Thank you > > Keith > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosinstall webmin or something. why load the machine down with x..:)
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 08:44:00 AM Keith Roberts wrote:> How can Linux _not_ have run levels. I thought that was a > central part of the design of Linux?No, it's a central part of the design of the old System V Init. C6, SL6, and upstream EL6 use upstart instead of SysVInit. EL7, if the direction of Fedora is any indication, won't have classic runlevels, but will use systemd. The Linux kernel knows nothing of runlevels; runlevels are userspace and have been since SysVInit was first used (and even before). All the kernel cares about is that it hands execution off to a userspace process that then takes care of further boot. That process can be /bin/sh or anything else, the kernel doesn't care.
On Monday, July 11, 2011 07:56:53 PM William Warren wrote:> On 7/11/2011 10:43 AM, Keith Beeby wrote: > > So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the GUI> > Any suggestions on how I can get this to work?> install webmin or something. why load the machine down with x..:)Trying not to be rude, but.... If a server is 'loaded' by having X running, either the server is too weak or it's lightly loaded. X's percentage of load on a heavily loaded modernish server is likely to be very low. But that's something to take up with upstream, not with CentOS, since CentOS is just simply going to be 100% binary compatible with upstream. This is something that should have been brought up during upstream's beta cycle (which started a long time ago); Karanbir for one specifically asked the list to test the upstream beta and file reports on it to help with what C6 was going to look like. But reading how some of these changes have taken folks by surprise shows that they didn't test the upstream beta as requested. Discussion was all over upstream's EL6 beta list, and it got rather interesting at times. Likewise, it's common knowledge that tracking Fedora is one of the better ways to see what's coming down the 'pike for EL; EL5 being based roughly on Fedora 6 or so, and now EL6 being based roughly on Fedora 12/13 or so, should tell you what to expect (the differences between FC6 and F12 are rather huge). Again, I'm trying my hardest to not be rude about this, but it's not like the featureset of EL6 came about in a vacuum or something.
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:31:07 PM Keith Roberts wrote:> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: > > C6, SL6, and upstream EL6 use upstart instead of SysVInit.> OK, thanks for pointing that out Lamar. So I take it we can > still choose which services we want running at boot time on > C6?Yes. But not in /etc/inittab. The normal chkconfig interface still works with upstart, and the inittscripts are still in /etc/init.d, and symlinks are still in /etc/rcX.d, with upstart. /etc/inittab is only used to set the default runlevel in upstart, as documented in /etc/inittab itself, at least on my RHEL 6.1 system. But it's runlevel emulation, not classic SysV runlevels, and upstart is capable of event-driven daemon loading/unloading. The F15 and later systemd goes beyond that.