CentOS 7.2 – No GUI Login After Upgrade
After installing and enabling the CentOS-release-cr repo on my CentOS 7.1
laptop; I ran yum clean all and yum update. Yum complained about gstreamer1
dependencies that is caused by epel repo; therefore, I excluded it from the epel repo and run yum update one more time and it went through.
After the update was completed I rebooted the laptop and I will just get the splash screen but will never get to the actual login screen; I have experienced this in the past from CentOS 7.0 to 7.1 upgrade and at that time it was caused by SELinux relabeling some of the configuration files;
e.g. /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. This was discovered after I went into single user mode and checked the journal.
I booted in the previous successful kernel that loaded and I experienced the same behavior; therefore I went into single user mode from the latest kernel that came with CentOS 7.2 and the previous kernel, checked the journal and there were no errors that give me a hint of what is going wrong. There are no SELinux relabeling but I left the laptop on for a few hours because I was modifying a few directories to accommodate docker and KVM storage from the default setup.
Any pointers on how to get the login screen?
Thanks in advance.
3 thoughts on - CentOS 7.2 – No GUI Login After Upgrade
Am 04.12.2015 um 03:12 schrieb Earl A Ramirez:
What about the gstreamer1 stuff, are all necessary libraries (linkage) in place? Especially for the EPEL
stuff.
You *need* to upgrade the gstreamer libraries or you break gnome (which breaks gdm). Uninstall whatever is clashing from epel, upgrade gstreamer, all will be well.
There’s a missing dependency there in the RPMs, but to be honest that’s not at all uncommon. I’d never recommend a partial update over a point release.
jh
Thank Leon and John,
Removed the gstreamer that was installed from epel repo and I used the packages that are from base and I am now able to login to the laptop.
Thanks again guys.