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? -- You're Welcome Zachary Quinto -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org