[CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2012-11-21 Thread richard.hedin
I believe I have the exact answer to Centos 6 Server has no GUI but I don't see how to attach my answer to that thread. I am running in Virtual Box on a Windows machine. When I changed my memory available from ½ Gb to 1 Gb , and my video memory to 24Mb, my installation script went from

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2012-11-21 Thread m . roth
richard.he...@nokia.com wrote: I believe I have the exact answer to Centos 6 Server has no GUI but I don't see how to attach my answer to that thread. I am running in Virtual Box on a Windows machine. When I changed my memory available from ½ Gb to 1 Gb , and my video memory to 24Mb, my

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2012-11-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/21/2012 06:17 PM, richard.he...@nokia.com wrote: I believe I have the exact answer to Centos 6 Server has no GUI but I don't see how to attach my answer to that thread. I am running in Virtual Box on a Windows machine. When I changed my memory available from ½ Gb to 1 Gb , and my

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-13 Thread Mark Weaver
On 7/12/2011 12:41 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Keith Robertske...@karsites.net wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: To: CentOS mailing listcentos@centos.org From: Lamar Owenlo...@pari.edu Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI On Tuesday

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Andy Holt
On 11/07/2011 16:46, I wrote: What caught me out (_doesn't_ sounds like it did you though), was that the CentOS 6 x86_64 installer chose to do a text-based install, through lack of support for the graphics card, I guess (this is inside VMware Server 1.0!). The text-based install does

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: You're joking I think the rationale was that they decided to put their efforts into a GUI install and it was too much work to continue the functionality of the text mode. You'd have to dig through the Fedora testing list, I think. And GUI

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Michael Schumacher
Dear Giles, On Monday, July 11, 2011 you wrote: So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the GUI perhaps:: yum

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 01:51:21PM +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: Dear Giles, On Monday, July 11, 2011 you wrote: So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but v6 doesn't do this,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Michael Schumacher wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Michael Schumacher michael.schumac...@pamas.de Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI Dear Giles, On Monday, July 11, 2011 you wrote: So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Baird, Josh
on Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Michael Schumacher wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Michael Schumacher michael.schumac...@pamas.de Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI Dear Giles, On Monday, July 11, 2011 you wrote: So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Michael Schumacher
Josh, On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 you wrote: help, because it is not starting automatically. And then, we don't have runlevels any more, this means a little bit more looking into details is required. How can Linux _not_ have run levels. I thought that was a central part of the design of

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Michael Schumacher michael.schumac...@pamas.de wrote: There is no GNOME Desktop Environment group. Check with yum grouplist and you will see. And even installing KDE Desktop won't help, because it is not starting automatically. And then, we don't have

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 08:44:00 AM Keith Roberts wrote: How can Linux _not_ have run levels. I thought that was a central part of the design of Linux? No, it's a central part of the design of the old System V Init. C6, SL6, and upstream EL6 use upstart instead of SysVInit. EL7, if the

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 01:44:00PM +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Michael Schumacher wrote: How can Linux _not_ have run levels. I thought that was a central part of the design of Linux? Actually, in yet another bow to the desktop user, sysv will probably be dropped in

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 02:55:16PM +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: Josh, On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 you wrote: Um, who says 6 doesn't have runlevels? I haven't personally looked at C6, but upstream EL6 -does- have runlevels just as previous versions: ...my fault. I had some remarks

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, July 11, 2011 07:56:53 PM William Warren wrote: On 7/11/2011 10:43 AM, Keith Beeby wrote: So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Scott Robbins wrote: Actually, in yet another bow to the desktop user, sysv will probably be dropped in favor of systemd. Made by the same person who did pulseaudio, it supposedly does some good--in my own case (on Fedora), it hasn't gotten in my way, which is about all I ask of the Fedora

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 08:44:00 AM Keith Roberts wrote: How can Linux _not_ have run levels. I thought that was a central

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 08:44:00 AM Keith Roberts

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:31:07 PM Keith Roberts wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: C6, SL6, and upstream EL6 use upstart instead of SysVInit. OK, thanks for pointing that out Lamar. So I take it we can still choose which services we want running at boot time on C6? Yes.

[CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread Keith Beeby
Hi, So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the GUI Any suggestions on how I can get this to work? Thank you Keith

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread aly . khimji
This might seem obvious but have you checked to see if you have X or any GUI desktops installed? AK Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread Giles Coochey
On Mon, July 11, 2011 16:43, Keith Beeby wrote: Hi, So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the GUI Any suggestions on

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:43:11 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi, So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/11/11, Keith Beeby k.be...@albion.co.uk wrote: Hi, So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the GUI If I'm not

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread Keith Beeby
Hi, Thanks everyone, yes server has no GUI by default, so should have added a install time, now working by adding later Thanks Keith On 11 Jul 2011, at 16:33, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: On 7/11/11, Keith Beeby k.be...@albion.co.uk wrote: Hi, So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:33:10PM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: On 7/11/11, Keith Beeby k.be...@albion.co.uk wrote: Hi, So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but v6 doesn't

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:33:10PM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: On 7/11/11, Keith Beeby k.be...@albion.co.uk wrote: Hi, So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread Andy Holt
-Original Message- From: Keith Beeby Sent: 11/07/2011 16:38 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI Hi, Thanks everyone, yes server has no GUI by default, so should have added a install time, now working by adding later Thanks Keith What

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - A lightweight server option is a long-awaited-and-much-deserved-feature but it would be nice if we could still get a very lightweight X - even if it doesn't run automatically. I often need to use X for odd stuff which only works on X - like using Firefox to check

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread m . roth
Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:33:10PM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: On 7/11/11, Keith Beeby k.be...@albion.co.uk wrote: So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread m . roth
Andy Holt wrote: From: Keith Beeby Thanks everyone, yes server has no GUI by default, so should have added a install time, now working by adding later What caught me out (_doesn't_ sounds like it did you though), was that the CentOS 6 x86_64 installer chose to do a text-based install,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread Lars Hecking
snip Huh? I always use the text-based install, and check the select packages (or whatever it is) box, and the next screen's where I go down its list, and go into each, and (un)select what I want on the machine. mumbleUpstream release notes/mumble

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:55:12AM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Andy Holt wrote: From: Keith Beeby What caught me out (_doesn't_ sounds like it did you though), was that the CentOS 6 x86_64 installer chose to do a text-based install, through lack of support for the graphics card, I

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread m . roth
Scott Robbins wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:55:12AM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Andy Holt wrote: From: Keith Beeby What caught me out (_doesn't_ sounds like it did you though), was that the CentOS 6 x86_64 installer chose to do a text-based install, through lack of support for

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread Michael Best
On 07/11/2011 11:13 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Have you done this with CentOS/RH/OLE 6? They've crippled it. In a When would I have tried it? I saw posts about mirrors being sync'd before I left work Friday. I'm certainly not upgrading my home system for a while RHEL6 has a trial

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread m . roth
Michael Best wrote: On 07/11/2011 11:13 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Have you done this with CentOS/RH/OLE 6? They've crippled it. In a When would I have tried it? I saw posts about mirrors being sync'd before I left work Friday. I'm certainly not upgrading my home system for a while

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 01:13:54PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Scott Robbins wrote: Have you done this with CentOS/RH/OLE 6? They've crippled it. In a When would I have tried it? I saw posts about mirrors being sync'd before I left work Friday. I'm certainly not upgrading my home

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread Keith Roberts
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Scott Robbins wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:33:10PM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: On 7/11/11, Keith Beeby k.be...@albion.co.uk wrote

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-11 Thread William Warren
On 7/11/2011 10:43 AM, Keith Beeby wrote: Hi, So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the GUI Any suggestions on how