FC18 Installation: No X comes

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Sat May 18 18:29:22 UTC 2013


you clearly did a minimal install without X and
so your default runlevel is 3 instead 5

unlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target
ln -s /lib/systemd/system/runlevel5.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target

and to enter runlevel 5 without reboot now: "init 5"

Am 18.05.2013 20:25, schrieb j.halifax2 at seznam.cz:
>> I hope that helps
> 
> Great, Martin! It did help ! ;)
> I installed over 600 packages and was able to run startx.
> But after rebooting X doesn't start but again only CLI comes. :(
> Probably you know where the frog is sitting, don't you?
> 
> :)
> 
> ---------- Původní zpráva ----------
> Od: Martin Airs <martin at airs.me.uk>
> Datum: 18. 5. 2013
> Předmět: Re: FC18 Installation: No X comes
> 
> 
>     On Saturday 18 May 2013 19:05:35 j.halifax2 at seznam.cz wrote:
>     > > what happens if you type startx at the prompt?
>     >
>     > Thank you for your advice...
>     >
>     > I tried, but there is no startx at all (neither 'which' nor 'find' can
>     >
>     > locate it).
>     >
>     > :(
>     >
> 
>     ok the next thing to try might be to....
> 
>     su
>     yum groupinstall "Basic X Window System"
> 
>     then see if you can startx
> 
>     after that if you have success you may want to install a desktop environment
>     of your choice...
> 
>     su
>     yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop"
> 
>     or....
> 
>     su
>     yum groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces"
> 
>     to get a list of available group do....
> 
>     yum grouplist
> 
> 
>     I hope that helps
> 
>     Martin

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