On 10/4/18 10:32 AM, Bob Goodwin-Fastmail wrote: > On 10/04/18 12:28, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Try "systemctl status display-manager" > . > The Fedora 28 computer: > [bobg@box83 ~]$ systemctl status display-manager > ● gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; enabled; vendor > preset: disabled) > Active: inactive (dead) > > The same command on Fedora 27 says: > UNit display-manager.service could not be found. That's saying that gdm was started but died, so you must have another display manager running that was NOT started by systemctl/systemd. The only way to find that is to, as root, "ps ax | grep dm", look at that process list and figure out which display manager is running. Odds are that it'll have the word "session" somewhere in its command line, too. Won't swear to it. On your F27 machine, are you certain that boots up in GUI mode? Or do you start X by using "startx" or something equivalent. On a couple of VMs running XFCE: [root@nginxingest ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release;systemctl status display-manager Fedora release 26 (Twenty Six) ● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2018-10-04 17:44:07 GMT; 2min 31s ago [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release;systemctl status display-manager Fedora release 27 (Twenty Seven) ● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2018-10-04 10:44:57 PDT; 3min 43s ago Note that both of those boot up into GUI mode. I do NOT run "startx" to bring up X on them. > Also systemctl status dmlight/gdm result in not found? Uh, it should be "systemctl status lightdm" (typo in your command?). If you get a "not found" error, it's because that display manager isn't installed. From my F26 system: [root@nginxingest ~]# systemctl status lightdm ● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2018-10-04 17:44:07 GMT; 6min ago [root@nginxingest ~]# systemctl status gdm Unit gdm.service could not be found. And that's because gdm is NOT installed on that machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - The Navy's a bunch of wimps! MY job's an adventure! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
