f17 - minimal + gnome :: init 5 does not work

[John Schmitt]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:40:32AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I remembered that on a non-graphical system (actually I did a
> graphical install, but changed the runlevel to 3) was just to type
> in:
> 
> init 5
> 
> So I tried it and things seem to just hang.  So I rebooted. Probably
> need to install more than just gnome on minimal to get gnome?

I've wondered myself what the systemd equivelant of changing runlevels is.  I imagine that what you're looking for might be something like:

systemctl status graphical.target
systemctl isolate graphical.target

Reference:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd#How_do_I_change_the_default_runlevel.3F

John