After RHEL 6 installation, no GUI

[Jimmy Pierre]

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[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens
Sent: lundi 15 novembre 2010 18:30
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: After RHEL 6 installation, no GUI

On 11/14/2010 03:14 AM, Jimmy PIERRE wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am a bit lost. Never had this before with RHEL 5. Installed RHEL 6 
> normally, added gnome and KDE, RHEL starts in text mode only.
>
> Reintstalled, same problem.
>
> I need to point out that this is a vmware installtion, *but* as I said 
> never happenned with RHEL 5.
>
> Tried grub-install etc. No luck. startx or startX neither.
>
> Glad if someone knows how to solve this.

>>>>The first thing to do is to try the startx, then have a look at the
/var/log/Xorg.0.log file and see what it has to say.
I tried all this of course. No, it was not an upgrade from RHEL 5. I will
tell you what, I reinstalled RHEL 6 again. This time I perused the
navigation bars and found well hidden in the X options the window X. I
ticked it et voilà.

Great that you took the trouble to write back to me Rick.
Cheers,
J