From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GiJtz-0008LR-IA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:05:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAA03O3l026288; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:03:24 GMT Received: from elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.67]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA9Nxpkw028634 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 23:59:51 GMT DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=hper0cmy02rYqumGpVYWv4mgW3uZ3zqLdmWoyTM6SfT7kga1WldmwfHDv6noCQRK; h=Received:Subject:From:Reply-To:To:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [24.225.91.119] (helo=[192.168.2.4]) by elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GiJoF-0000Fr-4X for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:59:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X not working after update From: jeff To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200611100017.21658.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> References: <1163113151.7557.3.camel@tux.homenetwork> <200611100017.21658.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:59:40 -0500 Message-Id: <1163116780.7222.0.camel@tux.homenetwork> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 X-ELNK-Trace: a869a34525bd7ab11520b18a6b7f82c0239a348a220c26096a35c7564dfe13e47315af6b3e971bc3350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 24.225.91.119 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id kA9Nxpkw028634 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id kAA03O4F026288 X-Archives-Salt: 5e30dd3c-0b49-4be7-8887-141fc3c44bc0 X-Archives-Hash: 039c142a22ff782338b1898ac0401b91 Thanks Bo. That did the trick. The DISPLAYMANAGER variable used to be in rc.conf, but the last update removed it from there. Jeff On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 00:17 +0100, Bo =D8rsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 09 November 2006 23:59, jeff wrote: > > I just updated X, and now I no longer have a working install for > > automatic startup. > > > > When the boot process executes, I get the error > > "/sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or director= y > > (No such file or directory)" > > > > However, if I then log in, typing 'startx' will successfully get me i= nto > > kde. >=20 > Did you want to use kdm or xdm as your displaymanager? If you want to u= se kdm=20 > then you probably need to alter DISPLAYMANAGER in /etc/conf.d/xdm. If y= ou=20 > want xdm then you probably need to emerge it. >=20 --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list