On 10/14/18 8:25 AM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote:
Robert,
El 14/10/18 a las 08:51, Robert Moskowitz escribió:
On 10/12/18 3:24 PM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote:
El 12/10/18 a las 14:08, Robert Moskowitz escribió:
So I shouldn't rush out to do more testing. I may have the group 'soon' and do it right? I can afford to assign more time to my paid consulting right now!
Please test as much as you can, I don't know how long it will take me to add the groups
So let's start afresh. I edited the seemingly appropriate group xml files I picked up from the main Centos repo. First I built a clean install, did yum update, added the epel1 repo, and created a user. Then I installed the rpms from the X11 DE:
yum install glx-utils initial-setup-gui mesa-dri-drivers plymouth-system-theme spice-vdagent xorg-x11-drivers xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-utils xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-xinit xvattr tigervnc-server wayland-protocols-devel xorg-x11-drv-keyboard xorg-x11-drv-libinput xorg-x11-drv-mouse xorg-x11-drv-openchrome
there was: No package xorg-x11-drv-openchrome available.
But that SHOULD be OK. Then I installed the Xfce DE:
yum install Thunar xfce-utils xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-settings xfconf xfdesktop xfwm4 gdm leafpad openssh-askpass orage polkit-gnome thunar-archive-plugin thunar-volman tumbler xfce4-appfinder xfce4-icon-theme xfce4-power-manager xfce4-session-engines xfce4-terminal xfwm4-theme-nodoka xfwm4-themes pinentry
No package xfce-utils available. No package leafpad available. No package xfce4-icon-theme available. No package xfwm4-theme-nodoka available.
Those 4 pkgs are also unavailable on x86. I don't know if you tested, but I think you should test the steps in x86, and then replicate them on arm
I really don't have an x86 available for testing! Just my notebooks, and I need those as they are...
This bothers me. Probably really need xfce-utils. Mousepad will do in place of leafpad as that is what Fedora has switched to.
Powered off, connected my KVM that has my Kybd and mouse and directly connected the HDMI monitor connection (the KVM only supports VGA). And powered up....
I see the following on the serial console as the HDMI monitor goes blank:
[ OK ] Reached target Login Prompts. Starting GNOME Display Manager... [FAILED] Failed to start Crash recovery kernel arming. See 'systemctl status kdump.service' for details. [ OK ] Started GNOME Display Manager.
kdump is of no concern.
Correct
And Centos is still using the Gnome DM, not dmlight as Fedora does now. NO dmlight in the repo, I tried installing it after the following test:
Finally get to the login screen and I log in and after a while I am back at the login screen. :(
So I look at the last 40 lines in /var/log/messages:
........
So I am missing something...
I will set this drive to the side so we can go back to testing it once you tell me whatelse I need to install...
I may be missing something too, so I'd like you to test this from another angle. First get Gnome working, and then install the xfce packages, so we know X has everything to run.
I am installing group "gnome desktop" over what I have.
Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 229 Packages (+404 Dependent packages)
Total download size: 557 M Installed size: 1.7 G Is this ok [y/d/N]:
Ooww. The list starts with:
Installing for group install "Base": abrt-addon-ccpp armv7hl 2.1.11-50.el7.centos base 193 k abrt-addon-python armv7hl 2.1.11-50.el7.centos base 101 k abrt-cli armv7hl 2.1.11-50.el7.centos base 87 k abrt-console-notification armv7hl 2.1.11-50.el7.centos base 88 k at armv7hl 3.1.13-23.el7 base 50 k attr armv7hl 2.4.46-13.el7 base 64 k bash-completion noarch 1:2.1-6.el7 base 85 k bc armv7hl 1.06.95-13.el7 base 107 k bind-utils armv7hl 32:9.9.4-61.el7_5.1 updates 205 k blktrace armv7hl 1.0.5-8.el7 base 133 k bridge-utils armv7hl 1.5-9.el7 base 31 k bzip2 armv7hl 1.0.6-13.el7 base 52 k centos-indexhtml noarch 7-9.el7.centos base 91 k crda armv7hl 3.13_2016.02.08-1.el7 base 37 k cyrus-sasl-plain armv7hl 2.1.26-23.el7 base 37 k ed armv7hl 1.9-4.el7 base 67 k file armv7hl 5.11-33.el7 base 56 k fprintd-pam armv7hl 0.5.0-4.0.el7 base 14 k hunspell-en noarch 0.20121024-6.el7 base 194 k kpatch noarch 0.4.0-3.el7 base 10 k ledmon armv7hl 0.80-2.el7 base 52 k libreport-plugin-mailx armv7hl 2.1.11-40.el7.centos base 64 k libstoragemgmt armv7hl 1.6.1-2.el7 base 219 k man-pages noarch 3.53-5.el7 base 5.0 M man-pages-overrides armv7hl 7.5.2-1.el7 base 1.3 M mtr armv7hl 2:0.85-7.el7 base 70 k nano armv7hl 2.3.1-10.el7 base 425 k ntpdate armv7hl 4.2.6p5-28.el7.centos base 84 k ntsysv armv7hl 1.7.4-1.el7 base 35 k pciutils armv7hl 3.5.1-3.el7 base 88 k pinfo armv7hl 0.6.10-9.el7 base 110 k pm-utils armv7hl 1.4.1-27.el7 base 139 k psacct armv7hl 6.6.1-13.el7 base 93 k quota armv7hl 1:4.01-17.el7 base 169 k rdate armv7hl 1.4-25.el7 base 19 k rfkill armv7hl 0.4-9.el7 base 11 k rng-tools armv7hl 5-13.el7 base 34 k scl-utils armv7hl 20130529-18.el7 base 24 k setserial armv7hl 2.17-33.el7 base 24 k setuptool armv7hl 1.19.11-8.el7 base 61 k smartmontools armv7hl 1:6.5-1.el7 base 422 k sos noarch 3.5-9.el7.centos updates 414 k sssd-client armv7hl 1.16.0-19.el7_5.8 updates 191 k strace armv7hl 4.12-6.el7 base 428 k sysstat armv7hl 10.1.5-13.el7 base 295 k systemtap-runtime armv7hl 3.2-8.el7_5 updates 363 k tcpdump armv7hl 14:4.9.2-3.el7 base 399 k tcsh armv7hl 6.18.01-15.el7 base 308 k time armv7hl 1.7-45.el7 base 30 k traceroute armv7hl 3:2.0.22-2.el7 base 55 k unzip armv7hl 6.0-19.el7 base 163 k usb_modeswitch armv7hl 2.5.1-1.el7 base 147 k usbutils armv7hl 007-5.el7 base 75 k vim-enhanced armv7hl 2:7.4.160-4.el7 base 892 k virt-what armv7hl 1.18-4.el7 base 29 k which armv7hl 2.20-7.el7 base 39 k words noarch 3.0-22.el7 base 1.4 M xfsdump armv7hl 3.1.7-1.el7 base 287 k yum-langpacks noarch 0.4.2-7.el7 base 30 k zip armv7hl 3.0-11.el7 base 247 k
And I won't flood this message with the full list.
The groups installed are:
Installing for group install "Base": Installing for group install "Common NetworkManager submodules": Installing for group install "Desktop Debugging and Performance Tools": Installing for group install "Dial-up Networking Support": Installing for group install "Directory Client": Installing for group install "Fonts": Installing for group install "GNOME": Installing for group install "Guest Desktop Agents": Installing for group install "Input Methods": Installing for group install "Internet Browser": Installing for group install "Java Platform": Installing for group install "Multimedia": Installing for group install "Network File System Client": Installing for group install "Printing Client":
(found via greping the screen log)
Poweroff, checked that everything was plugged in right. Powered up.
Once the DE came up, I looked for how to select Xfce. Did not see it. Clicked on my user, and THERE was a little icon for selecting Xfce. Chose that, entered my password, and the Xfce desktop came right up.
Only have done a little so far from the direct console.
Bottom line is my manual list is missing something critical. We need the appropriate groups instead of guessing. I am sure there are people better than me to build the right manual list if we can't get the group(s) built.
Meanwhile I will do the vncserver with Xfce test as well now that I have a DE. I have had problems with F29, see bug 1633805.
thanks
Thanks for testing. Pablo.