Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm not getting anywhere with X, and the scripts themselves seem to be
>>> screwed up.
>>> I've re-emerged x11-apps/xinit to no avail, and I'm current with
>>> revdep-rebuild.  I have no idea what else to try.
>>>
>>> Here's a transcript; no log is created in /var/log/Xorg.0.log so I
>>> don't think I have any further information:
>>>
>>> Script started on Wed 08 Jul 2009 09:00:25 AM PDT
>>> treat ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm stop
>>>  * Stopping xdm ...
>>> /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory
>>> (No such file or directory)
>>>             [ ok ]
>>> treat ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm zap
>>>  * Manually resetting xdm to stopped state.
>>> treat ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm start
>>>  * Setting up xdm ...
>>> start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory (No
>>> such file or directory)
>>>  * ERROR: could not start the Display Manager                             [ ok ]
>>> treat ~ # exit
>>>
>>> Script done on Wed 08 Jul 2009 09:00:53 AM PDT
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>>>
>>>
>>
>> So is xdm emerged? Seems strange.
>
> xdm comes from xinit, which is emerged.
>
>
>> Are you using gnome by chance? You can change the display manager you
>> choose inside of /etc/conf.d/xdm where I set gdm. emerge gdm and for
>> me it just works.
>
> Back in May, when this was working, it booted into KDE.  However,
> /etc/conf.d/xdm seems to be set to start "xdm", which is loopy.  When
> I change it to kde, it's says it's starting kde, but nothing happens
> and the log says no devices detected and no screens found.

emerge is not careful about xdm.conf so you might have had correct
settings earlier and then a new emerge over wrote something when you
weren't looking.

inside xdm.conf you can choose xdm, kdm or gdm. I choose gdm as I use
Gnome and XFCE.

HTH,
Mark