GNOME license not accepted issue when system has been rebooted

Concise

  1. Press 1
  2. Press 2 in order to change [ ] to [x] in front of 2) I accept the license agreement
  3. Press q
  4. Accept license menu does not prompt anymore at boot

Comprehensive

The issue was caused because the prompt was not clear to me. First I thought that pressing c would result in continue, i.e., moving to section2, but that was not the case.

A Q&A was found that indicated that 1 should be pressed in order to continue to section 2 (see question).

Braiam asked whether 2 was pressed. Pressing 2 over and over again added an X and removed it once it was pressed again (see comments to question).

When the X was added, i.e. [X] 2) I accept the license agreement., pressing c did not work, but q had to be chosen. My assumption was that an instruction would be displayed, e.g. press a to accept.

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Once yes was entered the license was accepted. Every time the system reboots the accept license menu does not prompt anymore.

I still do not understand why the license agreement menu did not prompt during the installation of GNOME and this desktop could run without accepting any license agreement and the menu was prompted once the system had been rebooted, but the license is accepted now and answers this question.


This issue annoyed the living daylights out of me earlier today since the update to the latest CentOS 7 release requires re-accepting the EULA, and the text interface for accepting the license is unintuitive to the point of being broken.

Simple fix to make this go away permanently:

  1. Interrupt grub (press e)
  2. Add init=/bin/bash to the end of your kernel line
  3. When you get to the prompt, uninstall the initial-setup packages - do:

    rpm -e initial-setup initial-setup-gui
    
  4. Reboot:

    sync;
    echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq; 
    echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger