[ale] Fedora 27 no window manager

[Jim Kinney]

dnf group-list
Then dnf group-install the appropriate group to get X desktop. Don't know if you use kde, gnome or others. You can also do group-remove, then group-install.

Check /var/log/yum or dnf log for what was done prior to all of this. Try reinstalling the prior removed package.

On July 20, 2018 5:57:35 PM EDT, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>Oh, and X -configure crashes
>
>On Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 17:38 Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> Or just run X -configure to build a config file.
>>
>> What package was fubarred? I run fedora 27/28 systems and have only
>had
>> issues with packages from repos other than fedora and rpmfusion.
>>
>> On July 20, 2018 5:21:46 PM EDT, Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:13:53 -0400
>>> Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>  A cry for help.
>>>>  Was updating this evening, and dnf said there was one package with
>a
>>>>  conflict and gave dnf options to resolve it. I followed that and
>>>>  halfway through the box reset, and now I can't get it back to
>>>>  graphical mode. Systemd has made it harder for me to diagnose, so
>the
>>>>  batsignal is lit
>>>>
>>>
>>> Try using startx to start X. Note you must have a ~/.xinitrc file
>for
>>> this to work. Here's my (rather overly complex) ~/.xinitrc:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> xrdb -load /home/slitt/.Xdefaults
>>> boolean false exec /usr/bin/openbox-session
>>>
>>> Let us know whether this works.
>>>
>>> SteveT
>>>
>>> Steve Litt
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