On 05/04/2014 02:50 AM, George Gallant wrote:
Gordon,
The ethernet problem was the old udev 70 rule problem.
Ah, fair enough. That shouldn't make it not show up at all, though it'll
just make it show up as eth1. I think I fixed this in the most recent
rootfs tarball.
Installed the packages you specified for X. Found I also needed
gdm and some fonts. X is almost working. Doing an "init 5"
brings up a X based login. Once logging in it immediately exits X.
Tried with startx and get similar results. The log files are not
particularly helpful.
It's difficult to be sure, but it might be worth checking what your
/etc/sysconfig/desktop says. Mine says:
DESKTOP=KDE
DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE
If this isn't set to KDE or GNOME or some other valid option, IIRC the
default action in EL6 is to just start xterm. If you don't have xterm
installed, then Xorg will just quit. If that is the case,
# yum install xterm
should get you a little further.
After loading the gdm I did a yum update which contained close
to 300 entries. Multiple hours. Makes me appreciate the effort that
goes into creating and maintaining a Linux distribution.
It is, indeed, a sad and lonely life, especially if you are doing the
maintenance around work and family commitments. :(
Gordan
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