[PLUG] Some how my system boots into text mode

Ali Corbin ali.corbin at gmail.com
Wed May 30 17:49:47 UTC 2018


On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Ken Stephens <kennethgstephens at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am puzzled.  Ages ago I did something to stop my Fedora 26 system from
> booting into graphical login mode.  I wish I could remember or identify
> what I did, but age and time have intervened.
>
> #systemctl status default.target
> ● graphical.target - Graphical Interface
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/graphical.target; enabled;
> vendor preset: disabled)
>    Active: active since Wed 2018-05-30 09:40:11 PDT; 30min ago
>      Docs: man:systemd.special(7)
>
> May 30 09:40:11 neptune systemd[1]: Reached target Graphical Interface.
>
> But the system presents a text login.
>
> #systemctl status multi-user.target
> ● multi-user.target - Multi-User System
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target; static;
> vendor preset: disabled)
>    Active: active since Wed 2018-05-30 09:40:11 PDT; 36min ago
>      Docs: man:systemd.special(7)
>
> May 30 09:40:11 neptune systemd[1]: Reached target Multi-User System.
>
> Before I disable multi-user I want your opinions on whether this is the way
> to regain my graphical login.  The graphical login has a dependency on the
> multi-user target.
>
> Regards to all,
> Ken
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I'd start out by looking at /var/log/Xorg*, to see if X didn't come up
because of an error.



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