GUI showing only cursor on black screen
Hello, I'm fairly new to the Linux scene and having an issue where after trying to install Teamviewer on RHEL7 Workstation, I'm now left with a mouse cursor on a black background and no login method (via GUI). I can log in fine and SSH into it normally using command line, but I need to access it via GUI. The reason I tried installing Teamviewer was because I wasn't having much luck with any VNC product.
I've since removed Teamviewer but the issue remains. Any help is appreciated.
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Hello, could this be the solution Getting black screen with mouse pointer while connecting to system over vnc..
By the way, have you tried the procedures in the TigerVNC chapter of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 System Administrator's Guide?
Stephanie, any luck? I've been bit by the same problem. I do not recall making any changes prior to this happening.
I've run a Yum Update, but this did not fix
Check this if gdm is the display manager : gdm fails to start with blank screen in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Sadashiva, Thank you. I was able to solve the problem on my own, but the link you provided looked very helpful, and I suspect would also have solved.
My own solution was to do a "yum update". It had escaped my notice that previous yum updates had failed to complete, but after resolving cache issues and doing a full update, GDM started working again.
Thank you, Daniel.
Guys ,
I need your help on this ...I have recently installed RHEL 7 & tried configuring VNC Server & client .While accessing the host using root user i ma only getting blank screen .Could you please share some fixes for this
Hi Im using rhel 7.3 and on the console I'm not seeing anything it's looks like blank screen even I installed the mention software but didn't work, please need expert advise.
yum groupinstall basic-desktop desktop-platform x11 internet-browser graphical-admin-tools fonts systemctl set-default graphical.target systemctl start graphical.target systemctl status graphical.target
for other users, the file is in
/home/$USERNAME/.vnc/xstartup
In my case I was editing the user's xstartup file and getting a blank screen in vnc when logged in as root. It is the file
/root/.vnc/xstartup
that needs to be edited.And to be precise, you just need to uncomment the two lines in that file :
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinint/xinitrc
add the line
x-window-manager &
After un-commenting, run the vncserver as root
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