Fedora 11 boots up fine, but no GUI

[RRT]

I just installed Fedora 11 for the first time. It boots up fine, but but no GUI comes up, just the command line. I've been using Fedora 4, 6, and 8 since they came out; did Fedora change its GUI on this release?

[parish]

login with your username at the commandline and then issue the command startx. Does the gui come up or do you get an error message? If there is an error, what is it?

Daniel

[RRT]

-bash: startx: command not found

Yep, normally I could run that command on past releases, but not this one...

[parish]

Is it possible the X11 stuff was not installed? What's the output of

rpm -qa | grep -i xorg-X11

?

Daniel

[stoat]

Hello RRT,

Did you choose or have to do a text install? If so, in Fedora 11 that is now a true minimal installation. You will need to work at that runlevel 3 command prompt to connect to the Internet and yum install things you need to build the system up. Start with the X Window System and a desktop environment. Then you can edit /etc/inittab and get it booting into a graphical environment to finish up.

[RRT]

parish-
rpm -qa | grep -i xorg-X11 comes back with nothing.

stoat-
I did the graphical install.

[parish]

Originally Posted by RRT

parish-
rpm -qa | grep -i xorg-X11 comes back with nothing.

stoat-
I did the graphical install.

Well, for reasons unknown, the X11 stuff was never installed. Install it all with the command

yum groupinstall "X Window System"

and let us know whether you can then get into the gui.

Daniel

Edited to add that you may have to install gnome or kde as well:

yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"

[marko]

Originally Posted by RRT

parish-
rpm -qa | grep -i xorg-X11 comes back with nothing.

Not surprising since there are no packages starting with "xorg-X11"
all the Xorg packages start with xorg-x11

(small x on the "x11" and since grep is being case sensitive there you wouldn't see the packages)

BTW, startx is a part of the xorg-x11-xinit package but it won't work right anyway until you setup
the user's home directories .Xclient-default and other files. The easy way to do that is to install
switchdesk and just run
switchdesk gnome
or
switchdesk kde
or in general:
switchdesk <desktop you want>

[RRT]

parish-
rpm -qa | grep -i xorg-X11 comes back with nothing.

stoat-
I did the graphical install.

[RRT]

Awesome, thanks for the command Daniel! One quick question about yum: when I try to run the command
yum groupinstall "X Window System"

or any of the other 2 commands below that, I get the error message:
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.
Please verify its path and try again.

Do I need to do something to yum first to set it up so that the repositories work? Would that resolve those errors and let the installations work correctly?

[parish]

Originally Posted by RRT

Awesome, thanks for the command Daniel! One quick question about yum: when I try to run the command
yum groupinstall "X Window System"

or any of the other 2 commands below that, I get the error message:
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.
Please verify its path and try again.

Do I need to do something to yum first to set it up so that the repositories work? Would that resolve those errors and let the installations work correctly?

One possibility is that you're not connected to the internet. Can you ping something like google?

root@mars:/usr/local/src[150]% ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (74.125.19.106) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from nuq04s01-in-f106.google.com (74.125.19.106): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=10.2 ms
64 bytes from nuq04s01-in-f106.google.com (74.125.19.106): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=10.1 ms

If not, that needs to be solved first. What is your current runlevel?

root@mars:/usr/local/src[163]% runlevel
N 5

You should see a 3 or 5.

If not, change to runlevel 3 with the command

init 3

and then try the ping and yum commands again.

Daniel

[RRT]

I'm at runlevel 3.

You are right, I cannot ping anything, whether its an IP address on my network or on the internet. I tried ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.3, it took the IP address, but apparently has no gateway...

[stoat]

You probably need an IP address. Try this and then ping again...

dhclient eth0

[stoat]

Originally Posted by marko

Not surprising since there are no packages starting with "xorg-X11"
it's spelled xorg-x11

Helllo marko,

Maybe not. The -i option with grep makes it ignore case.

[marko]

Originally Posted by stoat

Helllo marko,

Maybe not. The -i option with grep makes it ignore case.

Ok nevermind I didn't notice the -i