Difference between revisions of "Althea"
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*successfully installed, although kickstart options and root needs to be changed | *successfully installed, although kickstart options and root needs to be changed | ||
*successfully installed without using kickstart, got error "kickstart not supported with live install" | *successfully installed without using kickstart, got error "kickstart not supported with live install" | ||
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| + | ==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. | ||
Revision as of 14:57, 8 February 2016
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
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.
