<div dir="ltr">Good afternoon Scott,<br><br>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.<br><br>Matt<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Scott Packard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spackard@gmail.com" target="_blank">spackard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Recently I installed a RHEL6 server into an ESXi server.<br></div><div>I'm using it as a nfs and samba file server.<br></div>/etc/iniittab defaults to runlevel 3 in this version of RHEL.<br>
</div>I tried init 5, but it does not start a GUI.<br></div>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.<br>
</div><div>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.<br><br></div>yum groupinstall "X window system" says it's already installed.<br>
<br></div>startx gives me a GUI, but not the full login-based GUI, and none of the GUI-driven desktop window stuff.<br><br></div>Mainly I'm wanting it for the infomation assurance people who'll be auditing this weekly. They are not a command-line oriented bunch.<br>
<br></div>Regards, Scott<br></div>
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