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

Temlakos <temlakos@xxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 26 Jun 2016 13:16:45 -0400



    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?
    
    
    Neither! Somehow, some way, something disabled your sddm service. I
    discovered the same problem, after upgrading from F22. (Long story
    there.) The sddm service runs the graphical login and also selects
    your network connection, wireless or otherwise. And by the way:
    /etc/systemd/system/dislay-manager.service shouldn't be a file. It
    is a symbolic link.

    
    I'll pass along these two commands, which come from Garry T.
    Williams:
    

        sudo systemctl --force enable sddm.service
    

        sudo systemctl start sddm.service
    

    Log in to your console, and then execute these two commands, in
    succession.

    
    Thereafter you should be able to restart and still expect a
    graphical login.

    
    I admit this doesn't answer the question of why this was never a
    problem until F24. I can guess: another service called kdm took care
    of this kind of login. But kdm is obsolete with F24.

    
    I also think you'll find the new graphical login, especially with
    KDE, much easier to navigate. You select a user account from among a
    number of graphical choices. Then you specify your login
    password.

    
    Temlakos

  
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