Althea
Progress on Althea
Basic Information
- Hostname: althea
- Address: althea.eri.ucsb.edu
- MAC: 78:2b:cb:a7:bd:75
- IP: 128.111.101.143
- Installed OS: Fedora 23
Althea is (no longer going to be) Kenneth's primary desktop computer.
Troubleshooting Steps
Edit: see final solution below.
During the time of this writing, althea's graphical desktop does not work. Here are the steps I've taken so far:
- Installed Fedora Workstation.
dnf -y group install "Fedora Workstation"
Let's get the defaults up and running before configuring it further.
- Changed default target from multi-user back to graphical.
systemctl set-default graphical.target
- Restarted the machine.
shutdown -r now
... still not working as of 10:53am Friday 2/6
- Started booting up, no gui in sight.
- tried manually starting it up with startx by logging into tty2. Got this error message:
-- kchan: /home/kchan: change directory failed: Permission denied Logging in with home = "/".
- tried chmodding home to 711, no good. Tried 755, still nope.
- verified that /home/kchan is default directory in /etc/passwd
- After reboot, I get the splash screen, and then a bunch of text. The last line says "started gnome display manager". Let's see if gdm is up and running:
systemctl status gdm
Says active. Tried startx again, to no avail. Maybe upgrade/update? And then restart.
dnf upgrade
Tried reinstalling gnome-shell Disabled selinux by editing /etc/sysconfig/selinux and set to permissive
- Rebooted, still not working.
Trying again
- downloaded the xfce fedora 23 iso from ftp.ucsb.edu, and am trying to install it
- successfully installed, although kickstart options and root needs to be changed
- successfully installed without using kickstart, got error "kickstart not supported with live install"
Final Solution: 2/8/2016
We were able to get Althea up and running. We reinstalled it with kickstart, and it loaded into single user mode with no graphical interface. We group installed basic-desktop-environment and enabled autofs.service. From there, we were able to log in to a GUI with openbox, and installed gdm and xfce desktop.
