On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Dave Burns <tburns at 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. -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu