Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Fri, December 16, 2016 10:08 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> A user running gnome came in this morning, clicked on the application >> menu... and it was much shorter than he expected. He could get to >> firefox, and googled about refreshing that... and found something that >> told him to reboot. >> >> And that's it: I cannot get X up, at all. I just get the "oh, no, >> something failed, please log out and try again". >> >> Fully updated CentOS 7, [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 >> OEM], and, like most of us, he uses two monitors. >> . >> I've tried removing the xorg.conf, and renaming >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fglrx.conf, which was there (I didn't put it >> there when I built the box a few months ago.) > > What if you boot into runlevel 3 (that is no gdm or kdm...), log in into > virtual console, rename all X related stuff in /etc, and from command line > execute > > startx > > ? What do you get spit on console, and what do you get in xorg log? So far, I've force fsck (and I DESPISE systemd, oh, no, we *can't* let you use /forcefsck, we'll ignore it, you need to change the grub2 command line....), brought it up in runlevel 3, and no difference - startx gives me the idiot screen, and hitting exit gives me a live screen - monitor's not in power save, but black, blank, and it won't accept keyboard input. And I can't make it let go without a reboot (at least doing what I've been trying). Yum doesn't seem to have a group-reinstall - I was going to try to reinstall GNOME desktop. <snip> mark