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
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.
Dave Burns 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.
grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log view ~/.xsession-errors.
Is where I'd start.
mark
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:23 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Dave Burns 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.
grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log view ~/.xsession-errors.
Is where I'd start.
mark
Definitely! I've also generated a skeleton xorg.conf manually for testing at init level 3 using the following instructions (log in as root):
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_xorg.conf
This should detect the "basics" for you.
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