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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected] > > > > 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 > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
