Gordon,

Primary X problem was missing gnome-panels.

Is anaconda one of the missing utilities? I have been using it to modify
the applications menu.

Is there a scheme to record the "current" rpm configuration to regenerate a
second disk image? How about a memory device to "img" file on host?

Today it is failing to boot. Complaining about e2fsck on mmcblk0p2. Google
should help.

George

On 05/04/2014 07:06 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
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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