On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Dave Burns tburns@hawaii.edu wrote:
Hello, I'm using a recent install of centos 7, no GUI customizations that I recall. When I log in using the GUI it accepts my password and the mouse appears on a black screen, like it is preparing the desktop, but the desktop never appears. If I hit control-alt-f4 and log in using the command line, and then execute startx, Everything seems to work perfectly.
What sort of troubleshooting should I do to figure out what is stalling? I'm not at all familiar with this aspect of things.
thanks, Dave
We have seen this with user accounts that have defined LD_LIBRARY_PATH causing library conflicts with gnome.
Another thing to try is installing proprietary video drivers for your video card.