CentOS 7 + Cinnamon GUI installation

sitesme · 05-22-2017, 04:47 AM

Hi,

I am a newbie in Linux and SSH in general (very, very newbie) but I can follow instructions

So... I have a fresh CentOS 7 minimal installed and I was trying to install Gnome or Cinnamon GUI but both failed and gave me some errors.

The latest update is for Cinnamon and I got the following:

Code:

[root@CentOS-73-64-minimal ~]# startx
xauth:  file /root/.serverauth.10378 does not exist


X.Org X Server 1.17.2
Release Date: 2015-06-16
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System:  2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64 
Current Operating System: Linux CentOS-73-64-minimal 3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 12 15:04:24 UTC 2017 x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64 root=UUID=48ad5f59-7093-4f70-aff0-ca7873790481 ro biosdevname=0 crashkernel=auto elevator=noop nomodeset rd.auto=1 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Build Date: 06 November 2016  12:43:39AM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.17.2-22.el7 
Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon May 22 11:38:52 2017
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
pci id for fd 12: 1234:1111, driver (null)
EGL_MESA_drm_image required.
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
>                   Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
gnome-session-is-accelerated: llvmpipe detected.
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
>                   Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
>                   Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server

Any soul that could help me out fixing this so I can get more into Linux?

Many thanks.

DavidMcCann · 05-22-2017, 12:12 PM

If you've done a minimal (CLI) install, then a lot of stuff needed for a GUI simply won't be there; hence complaints like "EGL_MESA_drm_image required".

Sorting this out is more than I'd care to do, and I'd start again with the Gnome installation disk. Gnome has a lot of things that CentOS uses, so you need to leave it installed, even if you want to use something else.

If you aren't keen on Gnome, enable the EPEL repository
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
and set priorities
http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
Then you can install Cinnamon or Mate.