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  • RHEL 8 not booting into GUI mode

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    Hi,

    I installed RHEL 8 in GUI mode at the time installation. Afterwards, I deleted xorg* packages, then the machine had gone into Text mode.

    yum remove xorg*

    Again, I installed GUI packages using by following the
    https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5238

    yum groupinstall "Server with GUI"

    and set it to graphical

    systemctl set-default graphical.target and rebooted the machine.

    But, system is not booing into GUI mode after reboot.
    When I open /etc/inittab , I see first line "inittab is no longer used."

    What is the best file location that RHEL 8 uses to set the runlevel 3 to 5.
    Did I miss anything here?
    What I need to do to make GUI is the default login.
    Please help me. - Thank you in advance.

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