Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 22:37:30 +0800
From: Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@greshko.com>
Subject: Re: No Graphical Login After Fedora 24 Upgrade From Fedora 23
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
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On 06/26/16 22:21, David Dembrow wrote:

After completing the fedora 24 upgrade on a fedora 23 system there was no graphical
login and the system appeared to be running in console mode (run level 3).

I have always used KDE as the display manager and desktop.  I noticed a similar problem
posted but none of its recommendations were appropriate for my system.

I found the graphical.target set as the default (systemctl get-default).  Then I noticed
the graphical.target expects to have a display-manager.service but the
display-manager.service file was missing. from the /etc/systemd/system directory.

I copied the /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service file from a fedora 23 system
and enabled the service (systemctl enable display-manager.service).  Started the service
(systemctl start display-manager.service) and poof the graphical kde login manager and
desktop returned.

Well, first of all, /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service should *not* be a file,
but a symbolic link.

It should either link to /usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service or
/usr/lib/systemd/system/kdm.service if you are using kdm.

What does "systemctl status display-manager" return?


Mr Greshko,

Thanks very much for the correction.  I did not look for symbolic links and I did not have sddm installed on my system.  I did have a kdm.service file and enabling kdm creates the link as expected.  I can use sddm if that is going to be the future, but I still prefer kdm - and with some advice from this list I can correctly use either one.

The systemctl status display-manager command returns the following (before I added the display-manager.service file):

[] display-manager.service
    Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
    Active: inactive (dead)

Regards,
---d.dembrow