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 1MOb4S-00027w-NH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:36:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DE74E07FA; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:36:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f177.google.com (mail-vw0-f177.google.com [209.85.212.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BA43E07FA for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:36:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vwj7 with SMTP id 7so4410821vwj.32 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:36:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Rr5YjpiU/knxBXVMX7awF4GzD6BqscqPbo97ParWu/A=; b=XhPKNz0hPf/hOEj5G4HJ5nTBvQEh6X4b9JDOygsPuCYMaQmS5iG1BCm0gfbAGTKE7T dNCoo1HPZaHA7JNMnru8ccg99PQP3mOCihBFetdBqOOrzd4gckWfBRLtwpyrLzZUEQpr egZRBrl4phJXPL/P3BcVcDhZvR7o4YX2T0Bow= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WW/XWX8In9O7iUzABiOcT9JavL86eBVNdBHMOUobU35XO1FmruqnKB1uSQgwjNjGH4 xYHvu3XbZYh6lQ5IXLVvbt4ou/idx0S5HaylMGFQkSVK1DyQVUJd8qNVvkBqjo0vyNU4 VuNaWf+eepm+WpindhHnx/Pg+N5AE6OWcNAUc= 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 Received: by 10.151.46.11 with SMTP id y11mr2377516ybj.164.1247074598559; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:36:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50907081022n57455cd7s9d989d5b16ef33e@mail.gmail.com> References: <9acccfe50907080909s377399a0o832efd556f55b53b@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0907080912w67435bebr9acd2a04727e6280@mail.gmail.com> <9acccfe50907081022n57455cd7s9d989d5b16ef33e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:36:38 -0700 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0907081036gffadc43m1fda9116c03a4a55@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: fd653ada-93be-4b38-a9e3-467774613223 X-Archives-Hash: bb8d49748ca8c280efe1253c9d64ea66 On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Kevin O'Gorman 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. =C2=A0I 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 >>> =C2=A0* Stopping xdm ... >>> /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory >>> (No such file or directory) >>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 [ ok ] >>> treat ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm zap >>> =C2=A0* Manually resetting xdm to stopped state. >>> treat ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm start >>> =C2=A0* Setting up xdm ... >>> start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory (No >>> such file or directory) >>> =C2=A0* ERROR: could not start the Display Manager =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0= =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 [ 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. =C2=A0However, > /etc/conf.d/xdm seems to be set to start "xdm", which is loopy. =C2=A0Whe= n > 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