I?ve got a CentOS 7 VM here that was installed with one of the CLI-only presets.
To answer a question in another thread here, I wanted to install a GNOME desktop
environment in it, so I went searching and found the standard instructions for
doing that.
The problem is that rebooting the VM gives me a black screen after it finishes
the text booting parts. There?s an X cursor, and wiggling the mouse moves it,
but I get no gray login screen.
Pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 and logging into a text console works. Saying ?startx?
brings X back up again ? indicating that it does find the proper X drivers and
such ? but now I get just a few default icons on the desktop, but no top and
bottom toolbars:
https://imgur.com/IMI9Gh9
So, the GNOME shell is also broken.
I?ve repeated the yum groupinstalls for ?GNOME Desktop?, ?Server with GUI? and
?Graphical Administration Tools.? yum claims everything is fine.
Short of installing another VM with a GUI enabled from the start, I?m stuck.
For what it?s worth, the VM system is Parallels, and I do have the Parallels
Tools installed.
The same symptoms occur when booting into single-user mode and trying to startx
from there.
Warren Young wrote:> I?ve got a CentOS 7 VM here that was installed with one of the CLI-only > presets. To answer a question in another thread here, I wanted to > install a GNOME desktop environment in it, so I went searching and found > the standard instructions for doing that. > > The problem is that rebooting the VM gives me a black screen after it > finishes the text booting parts. There?s an X cursor, and wiggling the > mouse moves it, but I get no gray login screen. > > Pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 and logging into a text console works. Saying > ?startx? brings X back up again ? indicating that it does find the proper > X drivers and such ? but now I get just a few default icons on the > desktop, but no top and bottom toolbars: > > https://imgur.com/IMI9Gh9 > > So, the GNOME shell is also broken. > > I?ve repeated the yum groupinstalls for ?GNOME Desktop?, ?Server with > GUI? and ?Graphical Administration Tools.? yum claims everything is > fine. > > Short of installing another VM with a GUI enabled from the start, I?m > stuck.<snip> I just don't know if groupinstalling GNOME Desktop install xorg.... mark
On 4/17/19 12:00 PM, mark wrote:> Warren Young wrote: >> I?ve got a CentOS 7 VM here that was installed with one of the CLI-only >> presets. To answer a question in another thread here, I wanted to >> install a GNOME desktop environment in it, so I went searching and found >> the standard instructions for doing that. >> >> The problem is that rebooting the VM gives me a black screen after it >> finishes the text booting parts. There?s an X cursor, and wiggling the >> mouse moves it, but I get no gray login screen. >> >> Pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 and logging into a text console works. Saying >> ?startx? brings X back up again ? indicating that it does find the proper >> X drivers and such ? but now I get just a few default icons on the >> desktop, but no top and bottom toolbars: >> >> https://imgur.com/IMI9Gh9 >> >> So, the GNOME shell is also broken. >> >> I?ve repeated the yum groupinstalls for ?GNOME Desktop?, ?Server with >> GUI? and ?Graphical Administration Tools.? yum claims everything is >> fine. >> >> Short of installing another VM with a GUI enabled from the start, I?m >> stuck. > <snip> > I just don't know if groupinstalling GNOME Desktop install xorg.... > > markCorrect: yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" "X Window System" That should work -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20190417/9d089cee/attachment-0002.sig>