I've installed linux 6.1 on sun virtual box.But I failed to start GUI with "startx" command. Is there any other way to configure GUI on Linux 6.1.I am new on Linux.Please help me..............

Hi there,

no, quite sure you haven't. There is no such thing as Linux 6.1 - the most recent version is 3.x ("Linux" is just the kernel).
What you mean is very probably a complete Linux distribution whose version is 6.1, but you forgot to tell us which one it is.

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It's Red Hat Enterprise Linux server 6.1

RHEL normally dose NOT install a gui on a server
GUI's are very big security risks
so they are not installed on servers by default

you might want to have a read through the red hat install guide
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Re...ide/index.html

the docs page
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/...erprise_Linux/

I've found nothing helpful on those links. What can I do now ?

rhel6 normally DOSE NOT install a gui
a gui is not wanted on a server

you would have to install gnome
gnome is not installed by default on a server
Did you install Gnome?
If you installed gnome then

from the link above
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Re...oting-GUI.html
edit "/etc/inittab " with nano or vi
and change "id:3:initdefault:" to "id:5:initdefault: "

gedit will not work without gnome running


also gnome is started by using GDM and not startx any more

after loging in as a NORMAL user and NOT as root
type in gdm

also seeing as this is a VM install on an Oracle( was sun) Solaris have you looked on the Oracle VM web site

select any one & install with yum

yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"

To install the KDE desktop environment,

yum groupinstall "X Window System" KDE

To install the XFCE desktop environment,

yum groupinstall "X Window System" XFCE

vi /etc/inittab change 3 to 5