From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S4M9e-0004iV-7A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:51:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8FADE09A4; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 00:51:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54836E0663 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 00:50:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-78-35-180-236.netcologne.de [78.35.180.236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4B2D8DC04D for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 01:50:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 01:50:03 +0100 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xdm doesn't try to start (Gentoo issue) Message-ID: <20120305015003.16f32ed1@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0be4e7d1-5ed0-46c0-8477-de566664eb0d X-Archives-Hash: 207308e1a952b27e94a34a301bc2720a Grant writes: > I have two hardware-identical laptops exhibiting different behavior > WRT xdm. xdm doesn't try to start automatically on one of the laptops > but does on the other. On the one that does not start xdm, I get this > on startup: > > # rc-update -s | grep xdm > xdm | default > # /etc/init.d/xdm status > * status: stopped > # /etc/init.d/xdm start > > and xdm/lightdm starts just fine. What could be the problem? It > works perfectly on the other laptop. Is there any error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, before you start xdm manually? Watch during boot which services are being started after xdm, maybe xdm depends on something that is not available yet. You could add the needed service to the depend() function in /etc/init.d/xdm in this case. Wonko