[SGVLUG] RHEL6 server: question how to run GUI, gnome-based login on the console?

[Scott Packard]

Yum groupinstall desktop
Fixed the latest problem.
Looks like X was installed, but no desktop was (I don't like the term,
however).

Thanks, Scott

On Sunday, March 2, 2014, Matthew Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good afternoon Scott,
>
> It sounds like you have X installed, but as John pointed out no desktop
> environment.  Check that gNome or KDE have been installed and let us know.
>
> Matt
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> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Scott Packard <spackard at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','spackard at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Recently I installed a RHEL6 server into an ESXi server.
>> I'm using it as a nfs and samba file server.
>> /etc/iniittab defaults to runlevel 3 in this version of RHEL.
>> I tried init 5, but it does not start a GUI.
>> Editing /etc/inittab and changing the runlevel to 5 and rebooting was a
>> mistake because I lose the ability to CLI-login; I see a CLI of the
>> services starting, but after the last service starts I get nothing.
>> Kind of hard to tell whether or not ctrl-alt-F1..F7 work or not.  The way
>> in is via a Windows XP workstation, then launch a VSphere client, then Open
>> Console.
>>
>> yum groupinstall "X window system" says it's already installed.
>>
>> startx gives me a GUI, but not the full login-based GUI, and none of the
>> GUI-driven desktop window stuff.
>>
>> Mainly I'm wanting it for the infomation assurance people who'll be
>> auditing this weekly.  They are not a command-line oriented bunch.
>>
>> Regards, Scott
>>
>
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