Fedora 21 server gnome install not starting

[Morgan Read]

Hi Pete - no criticism taken :)

I want to run a server because I want to serve things...  ftp, mail,
printer, media, backup, dhcp, samba, freeswitch, owncloud and much much
more...  Strange, but true

Still getting to the bottom of all this.  I followed Chris Murphy's lead
and this is what I now get from the list at http://ur1.ca/jvh4d

[root at frontserver ~]# systemctl is-enabled cups.path abrt-ccpp.service
abrt-oops.service abrt-vmcore.service abrt-xorg.service abrtd.service
accounts-daemon.service atd.service auditd.service avahi-daemon.service
bluetooth.service chronyd.service crond.service cups.service
dbus-org.bluez.service dbus-org.fedoraproject.FirewallD1.service
dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service
dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service
dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service
dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service display-manager.service
dmraid-activation.service firewalld.service gdm.service getty at .service
iscsi.service libvirtd.service lvm2-monitor.service mcelog.service
mdmonitor.service ModemManager.service multipathd.service
netcf-transaction.service NetworkManager-dispatcher.service
NetworkManager.service rngd.service rsyslog.service rtkit-daemon.service
smartd.service spice-vdagentd.service sshd.service systemd-reada
head-collect.service systemd-readahead-drop.service
systemd-readahead-replay.service vmtoolsd.service avahi-daemon.socket
cups.socket dm-event.socket iscsid.socket iscsiuio.socket
lvm2-lvmetad.socket rpcbind.socket default.target graphical.target
nfs-client.target remote-fs.target dnf-makecache.timer
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[root at frontserver ~]#

That was after installing
ModemManager-glib-devel-1.4.0-1.fc21.i686
spice-vdagent-0.15.0-3.fc21.i686
dnf-0.6.4-1.fc21.noarch

And enabling those plus
rpcbind.socket

But, still no boot into a graphical interface.

I've put the output /var/log/messages here:
https://app.box.com/s/kb0becxjig2wmnl0b6468v83a85nd4wy
Of interest perhaps are the following errors which seem to follow the
point I'd expect gnome to kicking:
Mar  9 21:45:17 frontserver rngd: Error writing /dev/tpm0
Mar  9 21:45:17 frontserver kernel: tpm_tis 00:04: tpm_transmit:
tpm_send: error -16
Mar  9 21:45:18 frontserver kernel: [  135.139069] tpm_tis 00:04:
tpm_transmit: tpm_send: error -16

I'm beginning to wonder if bug report is needed...

thanks,
M.

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Morgan Read
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