[PLUG] Some how my system boots into text mode

Ken Stephens kennethgstephens at gmail.com
Wed May 30 18:01:38 UTC 2018


Ali,

Thanks, but there is no /var/log/Xorg.  I can start X using startx after
logging in.

Found one in /var/lib/gdm/.local/share/Xorg.0.log.  No errors.  Owned by
gdm.

Ken

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:49 AM, Ali Corbin <ali.corbin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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