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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.

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  • What are you currently using, kdm, gdm, lightdm...? Oct 28, 2013 at 6:01
  • I am using GDM right now
    – Demi
    Oct 28, 2013 at 14:47
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    what 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. Oct 28, 2013 at 15:29

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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.

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    +1 .... mostly for (properly) using vicissitudes Oct 28, 2013 at 15:26
  • That fails with "no such file or directory"
    – Demi
    Oct 28, 2013 at 18:26
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    This 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"). Apr 2, 2019 at 4:50
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sudo systemctl enable gdm.service

and maybe

sudo yum install "@Gnome Desktop"  

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