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 But kdm is obsolete with F24.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