I don't know much about how graphics mode works, but would be surprised if it worked without the xfs service enabled. Steven Yellin On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Federico Alves wrote: >> Is there any definitive list of services that need to stay on on server >> in graphics mode? > Right now when I get a new server, I first disable all services > chkconfig --list | awk '{print "chkconfig --level 12345 "$1" off"}'|sh > And then I enable these ones: > > chkconfig --level 1235 acpid on > chkconfig --level 1235 auditd on > chkconfig --level 1235 atd on > chkconfig --level 1235 crond on > chkconfig --level 1235 dnsmasq on > chkconfig --level 1235 irqbalance on > chkconfig --level 1235 iscsi on > chkconfig --level 1235 scsid on > chkconfig --level 1235 libvirt-guests on > chkconfig --level 1235 libvirtd on > chkconfig --level 1235 lvm2-monitor on > chkconfig --level 1235 network on > chkconfig --level 1235 rsyslog on > chkconfig --level 1235 sshd on > chkconfig --level 1235 vncserver on > chkconfig --level 1235 virt-who on > chkconfig --level 1235 udev-post on > > But I cannot ever start in graphics mode (init 5). What am I missing here? > Note: I don't need firewall, selinux, etc. Just the minimum services for a > server. > > Federico >