Need Help Booting to GUI

basicunixos · 08-02-2015, 05:04 PM

Hello, I'm having trouble booting to GUI, It just loads to command line, I can get to the GUI by typing startx and it works that way. But I don't want it to load to command line just to boot to GUI. Thank you.

goumba · 08-02-2015, 06:36 PM

You need to provide us with more details. At the least, a distribution so we can know what kind of package management system we're working with to make you you have the right ones installed.

However my first guess is that you're missing a display manager like GDM3, KDM, etc.

What desktop environment or window manager are you using, or want to use?

yancek · 08-02-2015, 06:39 PM

I haven't used Opensuse recently so I'm not sure this will work. Check to see if you have an /etc/inittab file and open it in a text editor as root and look for a line similar to the one below:

Quote:

id:5:initdefault:

Check to see if you have the number 5 there which is what most systems use for GUI although Slackware uses 4. If you already have that or you don't have the file, you will have to wait for an Opensuse user to come along

wroom · 08-02-2015, 06:58 PM

On OpenSUSE one can issue the command "rcxdm status".

It will tell you weather the X Display Manager is running.
It's output is similar to the following if xdm is running ok. (Notice the text "running" to the right).

Code:

Checking for service xdm:                                                running
xdm.service - LSB: X Display Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/xdm)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2015-07-21 22:12:37 CEST; 1 weeks 5 days ago
   CGroup: /system.slice/xdm.service
           ├─4213 /usr/bin/xdm
           ├─4215 /usr/bin/X -br vt7 -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-V*****
           ├─4230 -:0         
           └─4286 /usr/bin/xconsole -notify -nostdin -verbose -exitOnFail

If it says that xdm is "unused" of "failed", then you may get a clue as to what is wrong.

The text "active (running)" means the service is active and thus will be started after boot, and running means it is currently running.

One thing to attempt is running "rcxdm restart" or "rcxdm start" to see if it will run and present you with a "gui" to log on to. If it runs after starting it manually, then the service isn't activated properly, or the system booted into the wrong (non graphical) runlevel, as mentioned above.

There is more to this. What version OpenSUSE do you use? How did you install it? Using textmode or graphical installer? Has it been running in gui mode before? Have you changed graphics adapter? Have you updated the graphics driver recently? Have you made any changes to the boot settings before this happened?

goumba · 08-03-2015, 07:49 AM

nvm... I went blind and failed to realize I was in the OpenSuSE board.

ember1205 · 08-03-2015, 08:18 AM

/etc/inittab is no longer used in OpenSUSE. Everything is now viewed as a "target". See this documentation:

https://activedoc.opensuse.org/book/...systemd-daemon

Pay particular attention to 8.2.1.1 which will guide you through the process of setting the default target to a graphical level.