While it is always nice to know why and understand things properly - time has value too.
Wouldn't it be faster to reinstall the box and call it a day? If you back up /etc and /usr/lib/...systemd - diff might point to the cause later. -T On Wed, May 30, 2018, 5:01 PM Ken Stephens <kennethgsteph...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rich, Ben, Johnathan, > > Rich, > > No active inittab. Inittab is not used on a systemd system. It did have > a note on how to set "runlevels". > > #systemctl get-default > graphical.target > > Which is what I want to get. But, it does not get me there. > > Ben, > > Reinstalled gdm. Rebooted. Still comes up in a text screen. > > That is all I am going to do today. Breaking off for a glass of wine and > the 5:00 news. Need the wine to listen to the news. > > Regards to all, > Ken > > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Johnathan Mantey <mante...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Ken, > > What happens when you 'sudo /sbin/init 5' in order to get to graphical > > multi-user mode? > > > > Ben, > > I disagree about GRUB. The line that loads the kernel can have a run > level > > value assigned. I have a unit in the lab that I boot to multi-user > command > > line by adding a literal 3 to the kernel. If the kernel is not passed a > > value then graphical multi-user (aka run level 5) is the default. > > > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Ben Koenig <techkoe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Ken, > > > > > > First of all, GRUB doesn't have any say in "booting a graphical login > > > mode". The most grub can do is set the framebuffer and KMS settings, > and > > > even then X can override and set its own display settings. > > > - Leave GRUB alone. You run the risk of breaking your boot for no > reason. > > > > > > Second. The Multi User run level is where Display Managers are > launched. > > Of > > > course systemd has no doubt managed to obfuscate that simple fact. > > > - MultiUser mode is exactly what you want. > > > > > > Third. You are able to launch X. This means X is working, and you have > a > > > log file located at /var/log/Xorg.0.log. > > > - Of course I'm assuming the fedora team is smart enough to do things > > > properly. > > > > > > > > > Last and most importantly..... You have remnants of GDM on your system. > > GDM > > > will launch X to present the login screen, which is probably why it has > > its > > > own Xorg.0.log file. > > > GDM is also a daemon process launched by your init system. In this case > > > systemd. > > > > > > > > > There are 2 things you need to do. > > > - You need to make a Display Manager is fully installed (sometimes they > > get > > > broken into multiple packages...) > > > - Make sure your display manager (GDM, KDM, whatever..) has been added > > as a > > > step in your init system. > > > > > > Slackware does this with inittab, runlevel 4 launches a script which > > > launches KDM or XDM. > > > Ubuntu had the "sudo service gdm start" command. This launched GDM if > it > > > wasn't running already. > > > Fedora probably has whatever systemd stupidness the kids are promoting > > > these days. It reads a service config file and launches the daemon > > > described in that file. In your case this should be GDM. > > > > > > > > > Maybe you can just do a complete reinstall of GDM from the repository. > > > Maybe this will give systemd the kick it needs... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Rich Shepard < > rshep...@appl-ecosys.com > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 30 May 2018, Ken Stephens wrote: > > > > > > > > No entry about run levels in grub.cfg. Still searching and > scratching > > > >> head. > > > >> > > > > > > > > Ken, > > > > > > > > Does Fedora have a file similar to Slackware's /etc/inittab? This > > > > contains: > > > > > > > > inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up > > > > the system in a certain run-level. > > > > > > > > # These are the default runlevels in Slackware: > > > > # 0 = halt > > > > # 1 = single user mode > > > > # 2 = unused (but configured the same as runlevel 3) > > > > # 3 = multiuser mode (default Slackware runlevel) > > > > # 4 = X11 with KDM/GDM/XDM (session managers) > > > > # 5 = unused (but configured the same as runlevel 3) > > > > # 6 = reboot > > > > > > > > # Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6) > > > > id:3:initdefault: > > > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > > > Rich > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > PLUG mailing list > > > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
