[SOLVED] CENTOS 7.X / RHEL 7.X STUCK IN BLACK SCREEN AFTER LOGIN

In my case, GUI was displayed before I logged in. But after logging in, I was stuck in black screen (GUI didn't load).

Actually this issue is very easy to fix. But for those who don't know, follow these steps below (Don't worry, you don't have to reinstall Linux):

1. Press Ctrl + Alt + F7 (In my laptop F7, but it can be F1 - F7) to open CLI mode.

2. Press Ctrl + Alt + F6 to display login prompt.

3. Enter 'root' user & password.

4. Type 'yum update'.

5. After update completed, type 'reboot'

6. Now you should see GUI after logging in.

HOW TO OPEN WINDOWS NTFS DRIVE ON LINUX

To open NTFS drive on Linux, we need to install the ntfs-3g package.

NTFS-3G is a stable Open Source NTFS driver that supports reading and writing to NTFS drives on Linux and other operating systems.

This package comes from EPEL if you’re using CentOS/RHEL.

Run the following command to install EPEL repository and ntfs-3g package:

[[email protected] ~]$ su

Password:

[[email protected] user]# yum install epel-release

[[email protected] user]# yum install ntfs-3g

The next step is identify the partition and create a mount point:

[[email protected] user]# blkid

It will show you all the current connected hard drive/partitions on the computer.

Example:

/dev/sda1: LABEL="System Reserved" UUID="104AFBC24AFBA2A0" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="6E0802260801EE41" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda3: UUID="3dd36e9c-e367-44b2-8ffc-b4ce5ffed287" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda4: UUID="1cf0210c-22c3-4e77-99c7-fccf74d3105e" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Data" UUID="7FC482015907F743" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="MULTIBOOT" UUID="1613-316C" TYPE="vfat"

[[email protected] user]# mkdir /mnt/ntfs

Then mount the partition and open it with GUI:

[[email protected] user]# mount /dev/sdb1 -t ntfs-3g -o permissions /mnt/ntfs

[[email protected] user]# nautilus /mnt/ntfs

Note: This method is not permanent. After system restart, we have to run mount and nautilus command again.