on Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Michael Schumacher wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Michael Schumacher michael.schumacher@pamas.de Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI
Dear Giles,
On Monday, July 11, 2011 you wrote:
So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've
setup
Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the
GUI but
v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the
GUI
perhaps:: yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
There is no "GNOME Desktop Environment" group. Check with yum grouplist and you will see. And even installing "KDE Desktop" won't help, because it is not starting automatically. And then, we don't have runlevels any more, this means a little bit more looking into details is required.
How can Linux _not_ have run levels. I thought that was a central part of the design of Linux?
Um, who says 6 doesn't have runlevels? I haven't personally looked at C6, but upstream EL6 -does- have runlevels just as previous versions:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
Josh