Hello, I'm using a recent install of centos 7, no GUI customizations that I recall. When I log in using the GUI it accepts my password and the mouse appears on a black screen, like it is preparing the desktop, but the desktop never appears. If I hit control-alt-f4 and log in using the command line, and then execute startx, Everything seems to work perfectly. What sort of troubleshooting should I do to figure out what is stalling? I'm not at all familiar with this aspect of things. thanks, Dave
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Dave Burns <tburns at hawaii.edu> wrote:> Hello, > I'm using a recent install of centos 7, no GUI customizations that I > recall. When I log in using the GUI it accepts my password and the mouse > appears on a black screen, like it is preparing the desktop, but the > desktop never appears. If I hit control-alt-f4 and log in using the command > line, and then execute startx, Everything seems to work perfectly. > > What sort of troubleshooting should I do to figure out what is stalling? > I'm not at all familiar with this aspect of things. > > thanks, > Dave >We have seen this with user accounts that have defined LD_LIBRARY_PATH causing library conflicts with gnome. Another thing to try is installing proprietary video drivers for your video card. -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu
Dave Burns wrote:> Hello, > I'm using a recent install of centos 7, no GUI customizations that I > recall. When I log in using the GUI it accepts my password and the mouse > appears on a black screen, like it is preparing the desktop, but the > desktop never appears. If I hit control-alt-f4 and log in using the > command > line, and then execute startx, Everything seems to work perfectly. > > What sort of troubleshooting should I do to figure out what is stalling? > I'm not at all familiar with this aspect of things. >grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log view ~/.xsession-errors. Is where I'd start. mark
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:23 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:> Dave Burns wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm using a recent install of centos 7, no GUI customizations that I > > recall. When I log in using the GUI it accepts my password and the mouse > > appears on a black screen, like it is preparing the desktop, but the > > desktop never appears. If I hit control-alt-f4 and log in using the > > command > > line, and then execute startx, Everything seems to work perfectly. > > > > What sort of troubleshooting should I do to figure out what is stalling? > > I'm not at all familiar with this aspect of things. > > > grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log > view ~/.xsession-errors. > > Is where I'd start. > > mark >?Definitely! I've also generated a skeleton xorg.conf manually for testing at init level 3 using the following instructions (log in as root): ? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_xorg.conf ?This should detect the "basics" for you. ? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell