How can I cause Fedora Linux to show me the GUI login screen?

When I boot Fedora 19, the GUI does not start. I can start it manually, with startx, but this does not unlock my keyring, which is annoying.

This problem started when I tried to move from GNOME to KDE and tried to install KDE and uninstall GNOME, which did not work.

I guess I would like to reinstall GNOME from scratch if I could do so without loss of data.

Demi

Posted 2013-10-28T00:13:26.160

Reputation: 718

What are you currently using, kdm, gdm, lightdm...? – MariusMatutiae – 2013-10-28T06:01:18.653

I am using GDM right now – Demi – 2013-10-28T14:47:36.310

1what does runlevel return? What about grep initdefault /etc/inittab In most Linuxes, you start gdm at runlevel 5. Not sure if latter Fedoras change this convention. – Rich Homolka – 2013-10-28T15:29:33.403

Answers

Fedora uses, like Arch, the new systemd, so you should be able to start gdm at boot like this:

 sudo systemctl enable gdm

I hope this solves your problem, in light of your vicissitudes.

MariusMatutiae

Posted 2013-10-28T00:13:26.160

Reputation: 41 321

1This will not work if system target is not graphical (systemctl set-default graphical.target) and if all GUI related packages are not installed (dnf groupinstall "Fedora Workstation"). – Milan Kerslager – 2019-04-02T04:50:12.287

2+1 .... mostly for (properly) using vicissitudes – Rich Homolka – 2013-10-28T15:26:38.573

That fails with "no such file or directory" – Demi – 2013-10-28T18:26:18.937

-3

sudo systemctl enable gdm.service

and maybe

sudo yum install "@Gnome Desktop"

walt

Posted 2013-10-28T00:13:26.160

Reputation: 1