Condolences from the retired cheap seats... If you must rebuild it
sounds like multiple virtual machines or at least some kind of
containers.  But I have been out of the fray so long, don't take
anything I say at face value, ...

Take care ol friends.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 4:11 PM Howard White <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dealing with servers (virtual guests) upon which KDE was installed as
> the GUI.  I'm going through an exercise to try to remove KDE and replace
> it, reluctantly, with GNOME.
>
> yum erase kde-runtime seems to have done that deed nicely.
>
> First attempt yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" got all manner of
> conflicts between libvirt-libs and the existing (old) libvirt-client
>
> yum upgrade libvirt_client
>
> yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" got passed that
>
> Did I mention that I'm working remotely, trying to balance between
> PuTTY, RDP and vshpere (oh yeah, it's ESXi 5.1)?
>
> I did get to the boot screen on the guest console to accept the license
> and finish the configuration.  I am able to connect to "some part of"
> gnome via RDP but I don't have an "Activity" or "Applications" widget in
> the top left corner.  Gnome Classic??  No obvious way to log out of that
> session.
>
> Now on reboot, the console goes through the boot sequence, displays the
> CentOS 7 GUI login splash but not the actual login process.  Am not able
> to get to (what I know as session manager) select which Gnome or ????
>
> I am able to ssh into the system no problems.  I am also able to connect
> via RDP but it's not useable.
>
> WhaddidIdo this time?
>
> Howard
>
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