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.