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 1MOaqh-0000JR-J7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:22:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19489E01B8; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:22:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com (mail-gx0-f220.google.com [209.85.217.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE01DE01B8 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:22:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so14931764gxk.10 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:22:25 -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=uCuKLpoyUNva1lxe0/3+0+kXNVmDQ4ldDnMPIadi7Yc=; b=vDLnz48iWAmHxdTXG25bDrem3czCHzYkLVYphSNahkX2/4dwxmdkyrhtwJj0o+MEc4 a/0ZtlwexP1Mlq/PQJuOj2Y6ioGcuH6QzVFowowlJ9ScJp+4XS4wVPNQm2MDrKYdAXGM gsFhVDgkwtGhIOQFRLUXJrpYHp0LezrKo7DYE= 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=EJHKCxhWczfzm3wOcxoJkxGSJLveDi5td+qZibkvPbuHjp+Zxq9suABocMc4jHUOsh suov5nlr0MwMXLAF6vvM6Hi7C6M3znH44b3sq4sQgu3piYtz8YoKMxv5GDVNunYbWzg1 Ph5BvXGEwcKmrzSGewK1eEsHFR1IuefRxjFW8= 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 10.90.115.17 with SMTP id n17mr6354240agc.36.1247073745585; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:22:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0907080912w67435bebr9acd2a04727e6280@mail.gmail.com> References: <9acccfe50907080909s377399a0o832efd556f55b53b@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0907080912w67435bebr9acd2a04727e6280@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:22:25 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50907081022n57455cd7s9d989d5b16ef33e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [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: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 756575a4-f852-4db5-93a0-db3bd95075e5 X-Archives-Hash: 25cad42eb5732ac64df3fa891812cbf3 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. =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 >> =A0* Stopping xdm ... >> /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory >> (No such file or directory) >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 [ ok ] >> treat ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm zap >> =A0* Manually resetting xdm to stopped state. >> treat ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm start >> =A0* Setting up xdm ... >> start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory (No >> such file or directory) >> =A0* ERROR: could not start the Display Manager =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =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. 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. > > Good luck, > Mark Thanks. ++ kevin --=20 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD