On 4/17/19 12:00 PM, mark wrote: > 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 Correct: yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" "X Window System" That should work -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20190417/9d089cee/attachment-0005.sig>