CentOS 5 :: Desktop Environment Missing - GDM Is Failing
Jun 26, 2010
I am running CentOS-5x as guest OS in VMware workstation environment. Till, yesterday everything was fine... Today, when i start up I don't see the Desktop coming up, may be the GDM is failing in some way ( guess though). Xserver is working, coz I could see xclock/xyes are loading, also i have checked /etc/inittab, runlevel is set to 5. I did not see any entry in /etc/sysconfig/desktop, thus it shows DESKTOP="" I tried to change it to DESKTOP="GNOME", but it has not worked.
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Jan 4, 2010
I try to install GNOME Desktop Environment with that command yum groupupdate "GNOME Desktop Environment".
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Apr 27, 2011
I've done the following:
But when I connect via, VNC I get a minimalist screen and console.
I ran "startx" and got this:
I need to get a real desktop environment running on this box.
Centos 5.5.
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Apr 15, 2011
After I upgraded from 5.4 to 5.6:
I can see the desktop drop down menu when I log in as user root
however I can not see any of the desktop drop down menus if I log in as regular user
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Aug 29, 2011
iam using centos 5.4 and configured samba server and nfs server for fileserver.my problem is that when i login into root and saw desktop doesnot show any icon like computer ,trash , root home, and many others file which i saved in desktop.And also right click of mouse does not pop up menu.At the panel in side places there is "desktop" menu.but when i clicked on it , it gives error , files not found in its path. how to recover gnome desktop.or how can i get my desktop icon back...
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Jun 6, 2010
I installed Gnome desktop environment recently then ;I' ve lost KDE desktop effects settings. I just can see Compiz Configirator. I cant configure effects independently. There is same settings in gnome and kde. And also I cant change windows appearence.
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Jul 20, 2011
a server at work has been accessed through the desktop environment as root. I know this is a risk and since I have never done it before I was wondering if there are any files created by the desktop that could compromise the system and how could I clean it up.
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Oct 14, 2010
I'm running FC11 on an Intel 686 server and would like to solicit some help. I'm writing an Expect script to discover our lab network and would like to insert the results into a mySQL database. I've installed Apache/PHP/mySQL via the LAMPP distribution. I've hit a brick wall, however, in trying to install the mysqltcl library. how to install the library. I have downloaded an RPM, but installatiojn is failing due to missing dependencies: libmysqlclient.so.10 and libmysqlclient_r.so.10. And I have no luck in locating and installing those.
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Nov 3, 2010
I am using Fedora 12, and I recently downloaded the source of Empathy from the git repo. When I issue a ./configure on the console, I get the following output, please look at the last line:
[root@localhost empathy]# ./configure
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
[code]....
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Jun 30, 2010
I've just noticed something odd with 'su'. When you run 'su' with both the '-' (aka -l) and -c command options like this: "su -l user -c command" it doesn't appear to run /etc/profile before running the specified command even though the -l option is specified. If you run "su -l user" without the -c it does run /etc/profile.
Now, on other linux such as fedora it works as expected and runs both /etc/profile followed by the command specified on the '-c'. I'm fairly sure it used to work this way on Slackware (and every other UNIX I've ever used) too. "su -l root -c env" is a good way to see, as you'll find most the environment variables are missing.
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Jul 23, 2011
I recently fixed a problem i had with Ubuntu which was the missing title bars but as soon as i enabled them on Compiz, my Desktop switcher app will not work. I've tried removing it and re-applying it but this does not solve the problem.Its there, in all its glory, but i cant click any of the other desktops it seems unresponsive when im left-clicking it but it responds and works fine showing blips of what it is or even adding or deleting rows and columns is optional.I know this happened immediatly following the compiz change so it has something to do with that and i think it might only have 1 desktop that it knows of because i can highlight desktop 4 and it still says 1, but im probably wrong.
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Feb 13, 2011
I was trying to setup a cross-platform development environment with qt, an thus looked for the qt-sdk package I used to install on my 32-bit machine.This package appears to have been deleted from 64-bit ubuntu maverick, but I do not understand the details...
- Has this package been renamed, or is there another one in place of it?
- Is this package going to be available again in the future?
PS: I am aware that one can install the sdk by downloading the installer, but for unattended install I prefer the apt package...
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Mar 10, 2010
What's the centos-approved way to handle group environment configuration? Let's say there are users in, oh, 4 different groups. Let's use the usual suspects:
accounting
warehouse
admin
netadmin
and I want to set up environment variables and maybe some pathing that are specific to a given group. So that when 'joeblow', who is a member of group 'warehouse', logs in, the pathing and environment variables (and whatever else) that is needed for users in the 'warehouse' group is set up and configured.
What I was initially looking for was an /etc/groups.d, and in /etc/groups.d is
/etc/groups.d
accounting.sh
warehouse.sh
admin.sh
netadmin.sh
As part of the login process, the group memberships for the login username would be examined, and for each hit the respective /etc/groups.d/ script would be run. I'm not seeing anything like that, so I'm assuming centos uses some other mechanism, but I'm obviously not using the proper keyword mojo. Can someone point me to where this mechanism is described?
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Nov 25, 2010
what best desktop environment for a pentiun iii 1GHz, 256 Mb RAM and 64 Mb of video card. Like Gnome, KDE, Fluxbox, Openbox, Blackbox, XFCE or other, don't care if have or not menus or docks, I need it became fast and can see videos not in slow-motion.
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Mar 13, 2010
I heard Enlightenment is one of the best looking desktop envioronments.
And KDE can be very amazing if you install a rendering engine on it.
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Sep 8, 2010
I have my server configured to update automatically every night. However, updates are failing with the following message: There was a problem updating the system. The following error message was reported:
['Not installing key'] If the problem persists, manual intervention may be required. how to troubleshoot or resolve this issue?
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Aug 12, 2015
I'm sure you will laugh at me, however I do have to ask : is there a desktop environment at all in Jessie installation CD 1 , I mean the one I've downloaded here [URL].... , and to be precise this one [URL].... .
I've installed it in a virtualbox thinking that I'd see a Gnome desktop (assuming it is the default one and seeing that nothing was specified in the CD name), but there is no graphical environment at all, it boots to a console: dpkg -l finds no desktop components and there is no default display manager in /etc/X11 (of course startx only gets me another terminal, probably xterm) .
It should not be a virtualbox issue because the LXDE version there runs OK, I'm just a bit puzzled that no desktop environment at all is apparently installed even if I'm positive that I've checked that option during the installation: I've installed this CD without a network connection, but nevertheless, if the installer says "install a desktop environment" that's what I'm expecting to find...
I don't remember such an issue with Wheezy, in fact I only used CD 1 and there was indeed a Gnome desktop after installation - it's not a big deal, I'd just like to know if this is normal.
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Jan 23, 2010
Initially I have A system with XP sp3,1GB RAM and 250GB Hard Disk,Intel Dual Core Processor 1.8GHz. After I Installed Fedora10 with dual booting option. Till now everything is fine.. After I updated the Fedora10 to Fedora 12. Fedora 12 is hanging in 3d Desktop Environmnet.It is working well in normal Desktop environment..
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Apr 24, 2010
i got my fedora 12 cd today. only thing is, i got the KDE version instead of the gnome version, which i want for software compatibility reasons. if i install the KDE version, how do i go about uninstalling the KDE and switching over to gnome
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Dec 31, 2008
How do you change the GDM theme? Also how do I switch desktop environment. I installed both kde and gnome with the installer but at the login screen there is no sessions button
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Jan 10, 2010
I would like to install opensuse 11.2 on my children's new pc with nvidia 7025 graphic onboard card. which desktop environment is better between kde or gnome? I haven't a preference yet but I wolud like to install a light graphic system that can be used by a child of 5 yo.
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Jun 14, 2011
I am using openSUSE 11.4 with two different desktop environments(gnome and kde).is this good?
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Jan 12, 2010
Now I know this is an Ubuntu forum, but my question is really for Linux distros in general. An obvious newbie to linux, I was just wondering if I could change the default desktop environment that comes with distros: for example Ubuntu comes with GNOME. There is a way to change that to something like, for example, xfce or Openbox right? Or are these environments set for each distro?
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Apr 19, 2010
I have a shell I have written in C# for Windows. I have ported it over to Linux (Ubuntu) and it works well as an app running under Gnome.
What I would like to know is how to use the shell I have written instead of Gnome? What I want is a way of booting straight into my custom shell without the default desktop environment loading.
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Apr 24, 2010
I am a different distribution Linux user but considering to install Ubuntu Server 9.10 to run my personal website.
Question about Ubuntu Server version - does it come with some desktop environment like Gnome or KDE? I would be running Ubuntu Server on my home machine so it would be a nice bonus if I could use it to browse internet or check email.
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May 6, 2010
I know you can install the Kubuntu desktop in ubuntu via synaptic. But as many of you well know this also installs a whole bunch of KDE programs and such like. Is there a way just to install the desktop environment?
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Oct 26, 2010
I just updated today my ubuntu from 10.04 to 10.10. All worked ok until I rebooted my computer. After that, it showed me the terminal window instead of the desktop environment i had. I tried to reinstall ubuntu_desktop, but nothing.
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Nov 5, 2010
I recently upgraded from 10.04 to maverick(desktop edition). the problem is my netbook edition environment is not working properly.. can any1 tell me how to reset/reinstall the packages for netbook environment?
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Nov 29, 2010
Instead having a large desktop environment why dont we use the desktop environment from plan 9.
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Jan 28, 2011
Last night I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 and ran into some problems. I can only work in the desktop GUI in safe mode, the regular Desktop environment loads up rarely. Here is some hardware info:
Toshiba Satellite L25-S1217
Intel Celeron 1.6 GHz
RAM 874 MiB
Available disk space 47.5 GiB
Now, here is the dmesg output....notice the errors at the bottom (Idon't know what they mean, but I suspect that xwindows is having trouble mounting)
[Code]....
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