[root@toto log]# getenforce
Enforcing
[root@toto log]# setenforce 0
[root@toto log]# getenforce
Permissive
[root@toto log]# systemctl enable tdm.service
Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory

OK, so SElinux is in the way.  Not worried so much about that as the
new error message - there doesn't appear to be a tdm.service file for
systemctl to link to.


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Peter Laws, BS, MRCP / N5UWY
National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
University of Oklahoma Information Technology
plaws@...


On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Peter Laws <plaws@...> wrote:
> GDM works, TDM does not:
>
> [root@toto system]# systemctl enable gdm.service
>
> Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service to
> /usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service.
>
>
> Since there is a /usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service and since there
> is NO tdm.service, can I assume the installation broke?  Or that I
> missed a step?  'yum provides tdm.service' says no matches found ...
>
>
>
>
> [root@toto system]# systemctl status gdm.service
>
> * gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager
>
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; disabled;
> vendor preset: enabled)
>
>    Active: inactive (dead)
>
> [root@toto system]# systemctl status tdm.service
>
> Unit tdm.service could not be found.
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Laws, BS, MRCP / N5UWY
> National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
> University of Oklahoma Information Technology
> plaws@...
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Peter Laws <plaws@...> wrote:
>> Fresh CentOS 7, patched, added repos for EPEL, NUX, whatever else was
>> listed.  Accidentally installed "trinity-tdebase" first.  Pulled all
>> those packaged and then installed  "trinity-desktop-all".
>>
>> "systemctl disable gdm.service" worked and kdm/xdm failed (likely
>> because I don't have those installed) but this fails:
>>
>> systemctl enable tdm.service
>> Failed to execute operation: Access denied
>>
>> Adding -f to the end doesn't seem to make a difference.  Moderate
>> googling is not helping!  I've rebooted several times with no apparent
>> effect.
>>
>> Since it behaves identically when I try tdm.service as it does when I
>> try xdm or kdm, is it possible that I'm missing a step somewhere?
>>
>> This system was Ubuntu+TDE and while I've been fiddling with
>> RHEL/CentOS for ages, CentOS and it's systemctl are still new to me.
>> Never was a Fedora person.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Peter Laws, BS, MRCP / N5UWY
>> National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
>> University of Oklahoma Information Technology
>> plaws@...