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.