Warren Young wrote: > I’ve got a CentOS 7 VM here that was installed with one of the CLI-only > presets. To answer a question in another thread here, I wanted to > install a GNOME desktop environment in it, so I went searching and found > the standard instructions for doing that. > > The problem is that rebooting the VM gives me a black screen after it > finishes the text booting parts. There’s an X cursor, and wiggling the > mouse moves it, but I get no gray login screen. > > Pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 and logging into a text console works. Saying > “startx” brings X back up again — indicating that it does find the proper > X drivers and such — but now I get just a few default icons on the > desktop, but no top and bottom toolbars: > > https://imgur.com/IMI9Gh9 > > So, the GNOME shell is also broken. > > I’ve repeated the yum groupinstalls for “GNOME Desktop”, “Server with > GUI” and “Graphical Administration Tools.” yum claims everything is > fine. > > Short of installing another VM with a GUI enabled from the start, I’m > stuck. <snip> I just don't know if groupinstalling GNOME Desktop install xorg.... mark