[CentOS] No GUI with CentOS-7.2

Timothy Murphy
Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:03:03 -0000

Earl A Ramirez wrote:

>> When I re-booted my HP MicroServer into CentOS-7.2
>> I was given a text console.
>> When I run "startx" I get the response on screen [edited]:
>> ====================>> [tim at alfred ~]$ startx
>> xauth:  file /home/tim/.serverauth.21307 does not exist
>> X.Org X Server 1.17.2
>> Release Date: 2015-06-16
>> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
>> Build Operating System:  2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64
>> ...
>> Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.17.2-10.el7
>> ...
>> xinit: connection to X server lost
>> waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully
>> (0). Closing log file.
>> ====================
> What is your is your default target of the server, systemctl get-default?

[tim at alfred ~]$ sudo systemctl get-default
graphical.target