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 1MOgQ0-0002Ab-CD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:19:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF826E0592; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 23:19:14 +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 C3D5BE0592 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 23:19:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so15800891gxk.10 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:19:14 -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=DVzh+LAIhRtDkQBNPU7yObS3g5YnqrOoylc9yfG5Zh4=; b=kpFBsoTPa7qpmb4GhdBBrFPKuJ9Dt8+fblgwvlAX7gxXvuwNKU4JtS5HZsRWmlVRWg 9byeqrEa8veLFiuEjIoNTV31nskezQLonllE4c62gKGtf/0YwvuNoNHf5fTjDv0L8BxO RlWcfIOeouHHW2wYp7W3yaYdIKtOE9zYbrWZU= 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=BGY64Xp5Pwv7s9rIYobeV25k+yj45+hYjR5kjVBEPE82G/p8L5qNmuvSeEFIVUpBAI 2OaaDySbMfsGcefZMhtox+Cx2SEcYtYcY05QrEgq6nAVL4FYHDI5rVSgkvCsfjr7NqfT TmgMV06wMwrG+jG+dmSdU4vNMyjUDJTb26zzk= 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 10.90.101.7 with SMTP id y7mr79256agb.18.1247095150764; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:19:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090708224941.5412b244@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <9acccfe50907080909s377399a0o832efd556f55b53b@mail.gmail.com> <20090708171749.0b3b38ef@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <9acccfe50907081024y65767906oa8e90a1eac659638@mail.gmail.com> <20090708224941.5412b244@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:19:10 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50907081619n354518b7l728d385135527f9e@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: af4045ec-ec86-44bd-971d-6bd00b4ea9cf X-Archives-Hash: e6889d997b4b0b5bae8e09fdb46d4814 On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:24:01 -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. > > ]% eix -e xdm > * x11-apps/xdm > =A0 =A0 Available versions: =A01.1.8 {debug ipv6 pam} > =A0 =A0 Homepage: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ > =A0 =A0 Description: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 X.Org xdm application > > If you want to use xdm, you need to install it. This is different from > the xdm init script, which runs whichever display manager you tell it to. > > If you look at the comments in /etc/conf.d/xdm, it tells you what the > options are. Follow it's advice to get it to use whichever display > manager you want. Alternatively, check a backup from before things stop > working and see what the file said then. As many have pointed out, you don't set "kde". I knew that, and put "kdm" in the config file, but described it as "kde" because that's how I think about it. I'm not completely stupid. On the other hand, I really did think I had searched for "xdm" and not found it. So I'm partly stupid. Now things are more intelligible to me. X is still not working, but you can see about that in a different thread. > -- > Neil Bothwick > > If you can smile when things go wrong then you have someone in mind to > blame. Or, as in my case, you've realized just how stupid most of reality is, no company excepted. And found it both futile and funny simultaneously. ++ kevin --=20 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD