The following problem may or may not be related to the
fact that it is on a virtual machine under VMware. If
you don't know VMware, forget I said it. It *should* make
no difference. (But might.)
I installed RH7.2 on a virtual machine running on top
of a "real" RH7.2 machine. (I need a plain, generic
machine available to reference and take screen shots from.)
o The installation asks me if I want a graphical or
text login. I select graphical (as always).
o When I start the machine it comes up to a text login,
i.e., I have to login and run startx.
o *YES*, the default run level is 5, and the machine is
actually running at that.
o It happened twice. I reinstalled figuring I made a
mistake the first time. I made no mistake.
Two thoughts:
o Normally I select a custom install for real use. This
time I selected a standard Workstation, and selected
everything offered except games. Perhaps there is an
RPM missing from a skinny installation? I tend to
doubt this is the case, since the installation offers
the choice of graphical or text login.
o VMware instructions about installing a RH7.2 guest
machine say to skip lightly through the graphic
configuration section, because after the system is
running you install a special SVGA driver that makes
the graphics and mouse run significantly faster in a
virtual machine. *HOWEVER*:
- I was able to run startx as both root and non-root
*before* installing VMware's special driver, and
GNOME starts just fine.
- Even after installing the driver and rebooting,
(which should not be necessary, but I did), I
still get a text login.
Surely there is an easy way to fix this without
reinstalling the machine. The *obvious* answer would be
to change the run level to init 5, but as I said,
that's what it is already.
Yes, I've looked for an hour or more at everything I
know about. Clueless.
Normally I'd just shrug it off, but ironically one of
the primary reasons I went to the trouble of installing
this virtual machine was so I could get a screen shot
of the graphical login screen by running the
screenshooter applet from my "real" machine and
snagging a window shot of the virtual machine sitting
at the login. Grrr.
Thoughts appreciated.
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