Thanks. I have tried the commands which you have suggested but, unfortunately they did not work for me. I just reinstalled the server.
Regards Hersh On 7 July 2016 at 10:31, Venkata Balaji N <nag1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Hersh <parik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Venkata, > > > > Can you please let me know the steps which you have followed for > > re-installing the GNOME? I am having a similar problem on one of our > > system. > > > > To my understanding, when you install centos-7 with options ServerGUI or > GNOME Desktop and leave the system for long time locked, you will notice > that CentOS slips into textual interface mode and you will not be able to > get GUI which means, you can login to the system and cannot see GUI screen. > > I have found the following steps on google, which helped me get through > this problem > > systemctl disable gdm.service > systemctl enable lightdm.service > systemctl set-default graphical.target > > First command was successful, second one error'd out. Not sure what to do, > i reverted back the first command and executed the third command and > rebooted. All worked fine ! > > Below is the log - > > [root@buildhost ~]# systemctl disable gdm.service > Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service. > > [root@buildhost ~]# systemctl enable lightdm.service > Failed to execute operation: Access denied > > [root@buildhost ~]# systemctl disable gdm.service > > [root@buildhost ~]# systemctl enable gdm.service > Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service to > /usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service. > > [root@buildhost ~]# systemctl set-default graphical.target > Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target. > > I think, the last command made sense to me. > > Regards, > VB > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
