Why does RHEL7 anaconda not honor "xconfig --startxonboot --defaultdesktop=KDE" line and starts machine in Gnome post installation?
Issue
- Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 using kickstart file containing the following lines.
auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
cdrom
xconfig --startxonboot --defaultdesktop=KDE
ignoredisk --only-use=vda
keyboard --vckeymap=us --xlayouts='us'
lang en_US.UTF-8
network --hostname=newrhel7
rootpw --iscrypted $6$naiXhzfyCW2MWKUo$/S6idckbWajv2AJ8XpjBDBLntZy1U0vDyNrYlV7QMKFObkqTAHRdrF7xSBiWyinUHCw6WAwsnzp3OY9xL3J/f.
timezone America/New_York --isUtc
bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=vda
autopart --type=lvm
clearpart --none --initlabel --drives=vda
reboot
%packages
@^graphical-server-environment
@base
@core
@gnome-desktop
@kde-desktop
%end
- The line is there to boot the machine into
KDEpost installation, i.e.xconfig --startxonboot --defaultdesktop=KDE, still after installation finishes, the machine boots up into thegnomesession. - Why does RHEL7 anaconda not honor "xconfig --startxonboot --defaultdesktop=KDE" line and starts machine in Gnome post installation?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Kickstart
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