On 26 March 2013 21:29, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 03/26/2013 03:25 PM, Robert Benjamin wrote:
On 3/26/2013 3:14 PM, Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
On 26 March 2013 18:58, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Had you, for example, searched to find out a) how to look at a file, b) looked at the files I suggested you look at, or c) showed you'd done ANYTHING other than read my response and go, "duh, what's that mean?",
I'd
have been willing to work with you.
I had done some of the things you said. Did find out a) and b) andI think I posted output from cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 in the thread. I know it is there in post 26. Trying to learn Linux at age 77 ain't easy. The comments from different ppl will not send me scurrying back to windows. I have no probs with Ubuntu 12.2 nor Mint 14. Both installed on their own HDs the first time and I didn't have to edit anything. Only CentOS is giving me troubles which is a surprising thing to me. Is this due to differences between Debian and PRM.
No, the problem is that you did not turn on networking when you did the install.
Since networking is off, you have to get it turned on (or reinstall and turn it on this time).
See this FAQ entry:
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS6#head-b67e85d98f0e9f1b599358105c551632c6ff...
and this screen on how to do it on an install:
http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_6&p=install
In the 8th step ... you need to press the "Configure Network" button and you need to then check the "Connect Automatically" box (per the above FAQ link).
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Hello Robert Benjamin Can you do the following? 1) Start laptop until you get gnome. 2) Instead of logging in hold down ctrl+alt+f1 (ctrl+alt+f7 to get back to window) 3) This is your shell (bash by default) sort of like cmd in windows. 4) log in as root
most log files live here /var/log/ Cat is a shell command: man cat if you want to know more (from shell) vi is like edit in cmd
5) Push return and then type
cat /var/log/messages |more
That were a lot of apps including gnome report.
cat /var/log/messages |grep fail
I'm guessing your problem is not gnome but x windows (X11)
type: X -probeonly >& startx.out
dmesg |grep fail
Redhat say laptops are the hardest to support. They say they start here.
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html
From the link Dell inspiron which version?
Redhat docs
http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/faqs/rhl_general_faq/FAQ.html
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/?locale=en...
Have you got a wireless network up ? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless
man iwconfig
My two pennies. I think your CentOS is running fine. You have a problem with X or Gnome.
I'd do this. (assumes you have a network conection)
init 3 yum groupinstall XFCE init 5
Select user from select box. Before entering password look down(bottom middle of screen and select gnome xfce) log in.
If you still have a fail, points to X (X.org )
Hope this helps. Paul