Are you at the correct runlevel?
if you do a
does it return graphical.target?
If you do a
does it return N 5?
runlevel will tell you your current target/runlevel. If it doesn't return N 5, you're not at the correct run level for your graphical environment (0 is off.. if you magically get a return of 0.. things have gone very wrong). Runlevels 1-4 are all cli only. Runlevel 6 is a reboot.. (again, if you get a N 6 in response to sudo runlevel.. something has gone very awry" . N 5 (aka runlevel 5 and what graphical.target is linked to/aliased as) is where your gui runs and should be starting by default if you're trying to boot into a gui.
To switch run levels, you use
where * can be poweroff, rescue,multi-user,graphical, or reboot. IF you're not already in graphical, try
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sudo systemctl isolate graphical.target
and see if that fires up your gui.
If it fires up your gui and everything works, then change your default runlevel using
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systemctl set-default graphical.target
. If it doesn't fire up your gui, post up any errors and maybe we can get ya going.