F18 won't boot in GUI by default!
 

Yesterday, while running a yum update my fedora crashed and I had to hard-reboot it. Since then, it goes into text mode by default after startup, and after logging into the terminal, I have to give a 'startx' command manually to display the gui.

I've tried reinstalling gnome-shell and running
but that didn't help.

How do I make it boot in GUI by default?

Hi:

This thread might help:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...dition-940690/

Switching to a Graphical Login
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...gui-login.html

Fedora Systemd
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd

Hope this helps;)

I tried reinstalling gdb but that didn't help.

The article at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...gui-login.html suggests altering the inittab file, but it's not being used anymore (it's been replaced by systemd).

I've also tried the "changing runlevels" method given on
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/System...lt_runlevel.3F
but that didn't help either.

What could be the issue?

Not sure what the issue is- (maybe) corrupt installation files (or) a bug


Besides that the Fedora documentation mentions:
When you install Fedora in 'text mode' you can configure you system to use the graphical interface. It may be in the way you installed it; the options you choose-
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...imode-x86.html

This should help-

Booting into a Graphical Environment


http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...oting-GUI.html

read the rpm list in /var/log/yum.log
and reinstall the updates from the text only boot

a crash and hard reboot
caused some updates to NOT be installed and at least one to not be FULLY installed