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

fred smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Mon Nov 26 15:17:16 UTC 2012


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?

just a wild guess: did you try "startx" instead?

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