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Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/15/2015 11:26 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Really? There's no systemd target to restart it, and graphical.target >> doesn't do it? Um..... > > Why do you think that? Sorry, I would have thought that graphical.target would do it. And suppose I'm using kdm...? mark > > # systemctl status gdm.service > gdm.service -

A user running gnome came in this morning, clicked on the application menu... and it was much shorter than he expected. He could get to firefox, and googled about refreshing that... and found something that told him to reboot. And that's it: I cannot get X up, at all. I just get the "oh, no, something failed, please log out and try again". Fully updated CentOS 7, [AMD/ATI] Oland

Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/15/2015 10:42 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> How do you restart Xorg? I can't find a target for it, and restarting >> graphical.target doesn't seem to do it. > > Restart gdm. Really? There's no systemd target to restart it, and graphical.target doesn't do it? Um..... mark

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:14 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > dominic adair-jones wrote: >> going to run journalctl this evening when i get in and relay any errors i >> see. >> >> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote: >>> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +0000, dominic adair-jones wrote: >>>> Ok

dominic adair-jones wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:14 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> dominic adair-jones wrote: >>> going to run journalctl this evening when i get in and relay any errors >>> i see. >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote: >>>> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +0000,

Hi, folks, So I installed xfce on my Netbook. While I was in Chicago, I worked out how to tell it to bring it up. It came up. As root. With no obvious way to tell it to show a login screen first. Did I miss something? mark

On 11/13/17 18:34, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 11/13/2017 11:26 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> ??? Did I miss something? > > You left out the details of what you actually did.? Should we guess?? :) > > My guess is: you ran "startx".? That starts a session as the user that runs > "startx" Excuse me, but there's no need for insults. You know

I did the 5.6 update yesterday. When I started the machine today, I did not get a login screen -- it was just a blank screen with no cursor or anything. I shut down, restarted and when grub came up selected the previous kernel. The system came up as usual, presented a login screen, and is working OK. There is apparently something buggy related to the new kernel (2.6.18-238.5.1.el5). Stan

On 12/08/14 22:02, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > dE wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I just installed GDM on centos 7. I'm starting it by # gdm. >> >> However, all I see is a text cursor (as with the TTYs), nothing else. >> >> X works well. Logs have no errors. >> >> GDM logs are a copy of X logs. > Are you at runlevel 5? > > mark >

wwp wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Aug 2017 13:24:08 +0200 Andreas Benzler <andreas at benzlerweb.de> > wrote: > >> Ok you in Grub press tab and then add ?3? after the initrd entry ?. >> quiet?? >> >> yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau >> >> And see if X11 come up with standard frambuffer? >> >> Disable nouveau complete from kernel if the upper

On 06/11/2015 08:28 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Kay Schenk wrote: >> On 06/10/2015 10:06 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >>> On 06/10/2015 05:25 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >>>> I get /home/<username> not found when it's there and >>>> setup with correct permissions -- well here I am using it >>>> in run level 5 just fine! >>> >

I have installed a minimal kvm host system. I wish to provide a graphical login on the host. To this end I performed the following group installs: yum groupinstall "general purpose desktop" "x windows system" I can login on the host system as root and then run 'startx' which gives me a desktop, sort of. The top menu bar with the various tool sets is missing as is

Good Day. I install workstation, development station. Thank you. Best regards El jue., 25 de ago. de 2016 14:48, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> escribi?: > Edwin Agudelo wrote: > > Good Day. > > > > Recently buy an lenovo laptop (110 Ideapad 14IBR). Install (with > problems) > > Centos 7, but when start the first time, get the fail screen. Then, I try > > to

grep face /home/<username> -r :) -- David Fix Senior Systems Administrator Mr. X Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "m roth" <m.roth at 5-cent.us> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:01:27 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config? > Greetings, > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at

I installed Centos 6.2/i386 on a machine last night with a 1920x1080 monitor. The installer ran in graphical mode and looked fine. After the install was finished I rebooted and ran through the "firstboot" stuff (set up user, etc) with no problem and, again, it looked good. After that, when I should have seen the gdm login screen, all I got was the blue background but not the box with

El jue., 25 de ago. de 2016 15:38, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> escribi?: > Edwin Agudelo wrote: > > Good Day. > > Please don't top post. > > > > I install workstation, development station. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Best regards > > > > El jue., 25 de ago. de 2016 14:48, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> escribi?: > > >

On 12/19/2017 02:57 PM, Manish Jain wrote: > > > On 12/20/17 01:45, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Manish Jain wrote: >>> >>> On 12/19/17 22:11, Manish Jain wrote: >>>> On 12/19/17 22:07, Jonathan Billings wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 02:54:36PM +0000, Manish Jain wrote: >>>>>> I uninstalled the old TV, and

On Thu, December 3, 2015 14:50, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Valeri Galtsev wrote: . . . >> That is my main complaint about parallelized boot. My brain is >> only capable to deal with serial sequence of events, and which >> next event is deterministically predictable from previous. As >> with fatal things like kernel panic, it is the previous before >> the

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

On 06/10/2015 10:06 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/10/2015 05:25 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >> I get /home/<username> not found when it's there and setup with correct >> permissions -- well here I am using it in run level 5 just fine! > > Log in as root, and watch /var/log/messages, /var/log/secure, and > /var/log/audit/audit.log while a "normal" user