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 > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/35eeb634-dc53-ef20-1adf-e6e2783160ec%40vcch.com. -- ><> ... Jack If you are not paying for something, you are not a consumer, you are the product. - Chamath Palihapitiya "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Ben Franklin -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAFq0N1y2Yg8D_ZzE-p_JX6-O89zDt8z2GQgzVE8b0JgoR0U_%2BA%40mail.gmail.com.
