Did removing KDE get rid of sddm but now gdm/gdm3 is not there to take its place? Been a while since I've messed w/ RHEL/CentOS, but some distros keep the xdm (login manager) out of the desktop metapackages so they don't collide (if you want a machine capable or running either KDE or GNOME).
Just my $0.02 (aka "guess") --- bhw On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 5:37 PM Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > . > -- "Humanity will not be free until the last stone of the last church falls on the head of last priest" -- The Emperor of Mankind, Warhammer 40,000 -- -- 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/CAO-TQAg4pGC-ueLT7Sc7SHeRh8smGfxqZB1Snud8zzopX7754g%40mail.gmail.com.
