Re: No Graphical Login After Fedora 24 Upgrade From Fedora 23

[David Dembrow]

Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 11:41:21 -0400
From: "Mark C. Allman"
Subject: Re: No Graphical Login After Fedora 24 Upgrade From Fedora 23
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On 06/26/2016 10:21 AM, 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.
>
> Should this get posted as a bug or is the kde login manager expected
> to disappear with wayland?
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It's now the sddm.service. I had the same problem. We all need the usual
"dnf install sddm, systemctl enable sddm; systemctl start sddm."

After I looked at a display-manager.service instance on one of my
remaining F23 systems I remembered that sddm was on the way:
     [me@rigel ~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service
     [Unit]
     Description=Simple Desktop Display Manager
     Documentation=man:sddm(1)  man:sddm.conf(5)
     Conflicts=[e-mail]
     After=[e-mail]
plymouth-quit.service

[Service]
     ExecStart=/usr/bin/sddm
     Restart=always
     #PrivateTmp=yes

[Install]
     Alias=display-manager.service

It worked for me but that doesn't mean it solves the problem for everyone.

-- Mark C. Allman
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Mr Allman,

Thanks for the reply.  I did not have sddm installed, I did have kdm (but without a link to display-manager).  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.

Regards,
---d.dembrow