2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin <bobgood...@wildblue.net>

> On 25/05/11 05:48, Jan Willies wrote:
> > Ah sorry, you edited /etc/inittab. Yes, in the grub screen at the end
> > of the 'kernel-line'
>
>         Once I was able to boot F15 again it would produce an error
>        message instead of starting xfce. Reinstalling is a lot faster
>        than troubleshooting at this point so I elected to reinstall a
>        third time and start over.
>
>        That done I am back at the same impasse. It seems to me that I
>        should not have to jump through all these hoops just to
>        accomplish what has always been a simple configuration change. I
>        do not consider this an improvement.
>
>        The starting point, bringing /etc/inittab up in a text editor
>        produces:
>
>        # inittab is no longer used when using systemd.
>        #
>        # ADDING CONFIGURATION HERE WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON YOUR SYSTEM.
>        #
>        # Ctrl-Alt-Delete is handled by
>        /etc/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target
>        #
>        # systemd uses 'targets' instead of runlevels. By default, there
>        are two main targets:
>        #
>        # multi-user.target: analogous to runlevel 3
>        # graphical.target: analogous to runlevel 5
>        #
>        # To set a default target, run:
>        #
>        # ln -s /lib/systemd/system/<target name>.target
>        /etc/systemd/system/default.target
>        #
>
>        So I Think I have done what it says I should do:
>
>
>        [bobg@box6]$ ln -s /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target
>        /etc/systemd/system/default.target
>        ln: failed to create symbolic link
>        `/etc/systemd/system/default.target': File exists
>
>        And this is where I got in trouble before. What must I do to fix
>        this?
>

You can first try to boot with systemd.unit=multi-user.target before making
any permament change.

See the other replies for the symlinking issue.
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