min install to graphical, sans gnome, how to start graphical.target

Joel Rees joel.rees at gmail.com
Sun Dec 30 13:17:28 UTC 2012


On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Maciek Borzęcki
<maciek.borzecki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 21:02 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
>> What do I need to look for? With all the earth moving under our feet
>> because of /usr merge and systemd, I have no idea where else needs to
>> be set up.
> Check status of display-manager.service (i.e. check if it's linked to
> gdm):
> systemctl status display-manager.service
>
> Check the status of gdm:
> systemctl status gdm.service

No file for that one.

But, ...

> If it says that gdm is disabled do:
> systemctl enable gdm.service
>
> Link default.target to graphical target:
> ln -s /usr/lib/systemd/system/graphical.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target
>
> And then try rebooting - systemctl reboot

That did the trick, (rm-ing the link to run-level-3 first).

(run-level-3? That's supposed to be obsolete. I didn't set that. Must
have been set by the minimal install? Or some buggy package in the
groupinstalls?)

> --
> Maciek Borzecki

I'd report a bug if I had any idea what to report the bug against.

--
Joel Rees


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