System Won't load up GUI, but boot to terminal console

English Install/Boot/Login
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I have installed Leap 15 at least twice, and not more, and things went okay, but recently, doing this again, be it a brand new install, using KDE, xcfe, Custom (no selected additions), or upgrade, it boots into the terminal mode at TTY1 and goes no further (though I can enter commands);

At the time being, I’m executing “startx”, but I don’t know if that causes any loss of functionality like when it has when the boot goes into the GUI LOGIN screen. It’s ironic I was curious if there was a way I could use some kind of keyboard key-sequence to boot into console when from the boot screen, or when the system began to load. But, I’m stuck without knowing how to boot into a different Desktop, i.e. GNOME vs KDE.

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I also want to add that I purchased a new hard disk, and it still boots to the console, gives various errors at times, and other times, no error messages at all. I will stick to openSUSE of course, but I was thinking to see if another distro would do that, to see if the problem in within the machine, or its a openSUSE bug.

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Was this a clean install (as opposed to upgrade)?

What does the following command report?

systemctl get-default
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This as well perhaps…

systemctl list-unit-files --state=failed
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Yes, I have tried both more than once… the last install I’m using now, is a clean install, in fact, on a brand new hard disk I purchased.

What does the following command report?

systemctl get-default

multi-user.target
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Ok change default target to graphical.target with

sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target

and reboot.

You can also switch immediately using

sudo systemctl isolate graphical.target
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AH! YES YES YES! That fixed it up! Thank you so very much!

BTW, slightly off and on topic, is there a way to boot up into console mode when I want, as was on older days, like a key-sequence during the boot screen menu and/or when booting?

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Glad to have been of help

BTW, slightly off and on topic, is there a way to boot up into console mode when I want, as was on older days, like a key-sequence during the boot screen menu and/or when booting?

You can do it by editing the grub entry at boot, put a ‘3’ as the last parameter…
https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book.opensuse.reference/cha.grub2.html#sec.grub2.menu_change

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Thank you so much for all your help and assisting resolve this matter. Have a great weekend.