[PLUG] Some how my system boots into text mode

Johnathan Mantey manteyjg at gmail.com
Wed May 30 18:05:55 UTC 2018


Are you sure you didn't change GRUB to enter run level 3?  Check your
grub.conf file (or whatever it is called), and check for a solo "3" and
change it to a "5", which is the run level for UI.

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Ken Stephens <kennethgstephens at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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