[elrepo] Dual boot rhel 7.5 - gui not starting

[John Adegbile]

On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 at 19:04, John Adegbile <johnadegbile at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 at 22:11, John Adegbile <johnadegbile at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 at 03:46, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <
>> Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> wrote:
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>>> On 06/07/2018 05:48 AM, John Adegbile wrote:
>>> > I finally got to try out the solution  posted. Unfortunately, it did
>>> not
>>> > work for me though. The error I now get is:
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>>> > 22.409] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
>>> > [    22.409] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
>>> > [    22.409] (EE) Failed to load
>>> > /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so: libGL.so.1: cannot open
>>> > shared object file: No such file or directory
>>> > [    22.409] (II) UnloadModule: "glx"
>>> > [    22.409] (II) Unloading glx
>>> > [    22.409] (EE) Failed to load module "glx" (loader failed, 7)
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>>> that's strange. At least X is trying to load the correct libglx.so.
>>> Don't you have mesa-libGL installed?
>>> sudo yum install mesa-libGL
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>>> If that doesn't fix it, what's your output for
>>> find /usr -name libGL.so.1
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>> Thanks for all your help with this!
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>> As you suspected, I did not have mesa-libGL installed. I installed this,
>> rebooted, and..........I still can't get to an x windows session!!! The
>> last 3 messages I see during the startup before the machine hangs is:
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>> [ok] Started gnome display manager
>> [ok] Started System Logging Service
>> [ok] Started Virtualization daemon
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>> There are no x related errors in the Xorg.logs.
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>> I'm not quite sure what to do now...
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> I have some time to revisit this as I didn't get much further with the
> installations last time.
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> I did a complete re-install of RHEL 7.5 following the instructions from
> http://ezequielm.com/blog/rhelcentos-7-3-bumblebee-setup/
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> I also installed primus. I'm now getting the following errors in my
> Xorg.log when I attempt to launch gnome/kde
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> Failed to load module "nouveau"
> Failed to load module "fbdev"
> Failed to load module "vesa"
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> Any ideas what I'm missing?
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> TIH
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So after googling, I decided to install xorg-x11-drv-nouveau,
xorg-x11-drv-fbdev,
xorg-x11-drv-vesa. I then rebooted and the only error I'm now getting in
the Xorg logs is: "Failed to open DRM device for (null): -2"

Not sure what  I need to do next...
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