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 1MOZhv-0007Bj-S5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:09:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACDE1E0853; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:09:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f191.google.com (mail-yx0-f191.google.com [209.85.210.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90512E0853 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:09:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe29 with SMTP id 29so8079701yxe.32 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:09:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VGpG2aw6tL3riqg7nXIXuyWeqp8jAcrsPDlJJ6qOmEA=; b=F+L5oYBsaQGXuWy5cfRkxImTUKNpsBE4oVdLPe/JH1HqqQTQKWH9JanOVRmmw7uo02 C/3pZBZDkn3u3CTEOtVceJW2v6jDs7xgEcs3smZq+INctUZjAYL3qIyEJW76Bv3By9pO 6PaH78geqlRlI9bmWQfr93b7/5vWquhKHu8GA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=GANPQqBQ1BU7yp0zTLI8iygJ/Zqyt3osdRPkH8+jMNHAo471yJoDpQQNVRSfZc+43e F1p2tXrUoLk4zg3NokVDUNtS/N9hauuh5w1Nu557B7+uX5Cu+lI1JDUf+xHEfUr7w0cS S3wEN0PVbI6pxhmODFKYpJgg+s4QcruGMxtoQ= 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 10.90.81.9 with SMTP id e9mr2711330agb.73.1247069358321; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:09:18 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50907080909s377399a0o832efd556f55b53b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d6759a91-e97e-496c-88ee-b1b703283824 X-Archives-Hash: 17c2c9f856921f4797155fecca97cc50 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