Howard, did you save a snapshot in VMware before you borked it? On Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at 4:11:55 PM UTC-5, Howard wrote: > > Dealing with servers (virtual guests) upon which KDE was installed as > the GUI. I'm going through an exercise to try to remove KDE and replace > it, reluctantly, with GNOME. > > yum erase kde-runtime seems to have done that deed nicely. > > First attempt yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" got all manner of > conflicts between libvirt-libs and the existing (old) libvirt-client > > yum upgrade libvirt_client > > yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" got passed that > > Did I mention that I'm working remotely, trying to balance between > PuTTY, RDP and vshpere (oh yeah, it's ESXi 5.1)? > > I did get to the boot screen on the guest console to accept the license > and finish the configuration. I am able to connect to "some part of" > gnome via RDP but I don't have an "Activity" or "Applications" widget in > the top left corner. Gnome Classic?? No obvious way to log out of that > session. > > Now on reboot, the console goes through the boot sequence, displays the > CentOS 7 GUI login splash but not the actual login process. Am not able > to get to (what I know as session manager) select which Gnome or ???? > > I am able to ssh into the system no problems. I am also able to connect > via RDP but it's not useable. > > WhaddidIdo this time? > > Howard >
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