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 1MOawK-0000oy-Qh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:28:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7639E07C1; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:27:03 +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 92550E07C1 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:27:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so14942341gxk.10 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:27:03 -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=hLspVFn2bFvo1eGI1pA5C8uZDzoF6zo3c6269kJcQIw=; b=j5N2SWFShhZ+T/VWvJFme5OvGIKaA4+jDlGtZsq8f1bZ9L9uAIwzVVR1iTK9bIz0rf DykFVbiHAiowWM7oV2d1xEASgtZV7ffREuDy/neTHorXFCcu5IbbWsJsA/7vHOK8yvGx sAHK2hptEBKXkFytH2hCfamtqLH25wENRH8yw= 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=BhFHFAS7PCCGO3NLxhFDim0QiOBGt0PHZgnEGhXVT+nHkQ5DNm4+7CGacbwzkE1l/s UKvs1Zdi6n0E07lIKCPhjSMaasBSrth0cMj4lODUaRJMqL9zVabKO/yCnUHLXBoXDAkj ENqqLqhjyRn2nKa0WxXeQpFZC9xhp04QHykR8= 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 10.90.84.2 with SMTP id h2mr5379438agb.38.1247074023268; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:27:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50907081024y65767906oa8e90a1eac659638@mail.gmail.com> References: <9acccfe50907080909s377399a0o832efd556f55b53b@mail.gmail.com> <20090708171749.0b3b38ef@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <9acccfe50907081024y65767906oa8e90a1eac659638@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:27:03 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50907081027s7bbbe7c2m763a841458caa5d6@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: a21a748e-215b-4b34-8b3a-e75a0b0ca498 X-Archives-Hash: fe5af5ed890036518bff5df53c2a0453 On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:09:18 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >>> /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory >> >> You don't have xdm installed, have you checked /etc/conf.d/xdm? >> > > I do have xinit, which installs /etc/init.d/xdm. =A0I see no ebuild > called xdm, so if there's something else I need, please tell me. > > Note that the path it's complaining about is something in /usr/bin, > and that indeed could be the problem. Oh, and /etc/conf.d/xdm exists: kevin@kermod ~ $ cat xdm-090708a # We always try and start X on a static VT. The various DMs normally defaul= t # to using VT7. If you wish to use the xdm init script, then you should ens= ure # that the VT checked is the same VT your DM wants to use. We do this check= to # ensure that you have't accidently configured something to run on the VT # in your /etc/inittab file so that you don't get a dead keyboard. CHECKVT=3D7 # What display manager do you use ? [ xdm | gdm | kdm | kdm-3.5 | kdm-4.0 | gpe | entrance ] # NOTE: If this is set in /etc/rc.conf, that setting will override this one= . # KDE-specific note: kdm-3.5 and kdm-4.0 are just examples. You will find a= ll # possible versions by looking at the directories in /usr/kde/. DISPLAYMANAGER=3D"xdm" kevin@kermod ~ $ I've tried changing the DISPLAYMANAGER to kde, and I get different symptoms. This gets complicated, so I'm just reporting here what I started with. --=20 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD