I have a Suse 13.2 VM in Hyper-V with minimal install that boots to the command line. I want to boot into GNOME.
After some Googling I went into Yast2 Software and installed Patterns for GNOME Desktop Environment and GNOME Base System.
After reboot it still comes to the command prompt to login. I tried startx but it returns an error and it seems that is depreciated? So I tried Init 5. It runs through and starts loading things then stops at “Started Local Service.” and hangs there.
I have used Suse/SLES over the years but always with GNOME.
this might be a silly response but do you have a display manager installed and configured?
in yast /etc/sysconfig editor make sure gdm is set as a display manager.
or edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager
and set DISPLAYMANAGER=“gdm”
ps. you only have a command line no graphical user interface at all?
It want to boot to command line because that is how you had it set.
boot to terminal log in as root type
init5
this should try to start the GUI log in in this case gdm Once ther you may want to select gnome desktop or it may boot to terminal again
note that gnome is really picky about the video drivers they must support openGL or it won’t run. But you get a “Oh no something went wrong” message. I don’t know what level video hyperV supports???