Althea

Progress on Althea

Basic Information

Althea is (going to be) Kenneth's primary desktop computer.

During the time of this writing, althea's graphical desktop does not work. Here are the steps I've taken so far:

dnf -y group install "Fedora Workstation"

Let's get the defaults up and running before configuring it further.

systemctl set-default graphical.target

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

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