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What should we actually do to access our server from windows?

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http://serverfault.com – This is what I got from the web To install GNOME use this command: yum -y groupinstall “X Window System” “GNOME Desktop Environment” If you boot your os and gnome don’t auto start login as user or root, type startx and press enter. After this will start your GNOME Desktop. There are so many variants of these. None of which is complete. I did yum -y groupinstall “X Window System” “GNOME Desktop Environment” Then after I run startx I got: root@host [/etc]# startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.13989 Fatal server error: Server is alr (HowTos)

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Submitted by xskl on 12/27/2012

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I 'm using fedora 17 but not used to GNOME 3 ,so I uninstalled gnome desktop environment (including GDM login manager ) . For now , when the system started, it can't enter the X-window(I'm using awesome WM without any desktop env) and the tty1 is absolutely black without any cursor or word ,thus I have to press ctrl+alt+f2 to enter tty2,then login , then issue the command : startx .....

I normally prefer my system to boot in text mode and manually start Gnome with startx but if I do that with Gnome 3.6.1, I get many errors and a basically unusable operating system. After installing gdm however, Gnome works perfectly fine again. Why is that and how can I return to my startx?

Hi!

So, I am having difficulty understanding what I need to do or if this can be done at all..

I would like to boot into the command line for my Linux system but, still have access to the different environments as well (KDE, GNOME, Enlightenment, etc) but I don't know how to do that using startx.

Hi, I have being googling and trying to find out solution to unable to startx. Please note i have already search from last 2-3 days for the solution but didn't found anything.

So request someone to guide me step by step. Also one more thing, the server was crashed and i upgraded the existing server using CD.

X fails to start 46 weeks 3 days ago

Did that now I get an even bigger error [root@MCSG ~]# startx hostname: Unknown host xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.22244

... [by Double0negative]

I was hoping to be able to access a Fedora 17 desktop on EC2. I launched an Amazon EC2 Fedora 17 instance, I logged in via ssh.

I ran: (I figured this would get me a desktop?

You forgot to install the X server.yum groupinstall "X Window System" [by gerald_clark]

I'd like to achieve following:

no gnome-desktop auto login a user and load .bashrc auto startx and run my custom chromium

Now:

I'm able to start with text only, by adding "text" into /etc/default/grub I'm able to login root, by editing /etc/init/tty1.conf (ref1) but how to login as another user?

This question is primarily for my own education. I first tried to install Fedora 18 choosing the Gnome desktop option, but the desktop was unusable after logging in (the appearance was of a font with mostly blank characters and occasional colored backgrounds). Later, I was successful at an install with the LXDE desktop choice.