[CentOS] EL7 mirror: "There is no installed groups file."

[Warren Young]

On 1/8/2014 17:00, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> On 01/07/2014 08:27 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>> (I'm trying to set up a CUPS server.  So yeah, X11 is a prerequisite for
>> installing a printer now.  Lovely.)
>
> How about using http://localhost:631 with lynx or some other such text
> based browser.

I ended up writing a 2-line .xinitrc file to solve this problem:

    xterm &
    exec metacity

This at least lets me temporarily "shell into X," as it were.

This works because I've got enough of X and GNOME installed that I can 
get the GUI up and run programs, but the GNOME desktop proper isn't yet 
completely functional.