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On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I'm not getting anywhere with X, and the scripts themselves seem to be |
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>> screwed up. |
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>> I've re-emerged x11-apps/xinit to no avail, and I'm current with |
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>> revdep-rebuild. I have no idea what else to try. |
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>> Here's a transcript; no log is created in /var/log/Xorg.0.log so I |
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>> don't think I have any further information: |
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>> Script started on Wed 08 Jul 2009 09:00:25 AM PDT |
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>> treat ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm stop |
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>> * Stopping xdm ... |
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>> /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory |
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>> (No such file or directory) |
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>> [ ok ] |
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>> treat ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm zap |
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>> * Manually resetting xdm to stopped state. |
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>> treat ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm start |
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>> * Setting up xdm ... |
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>> start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory (No |
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>> such file or directory) |
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>> * ERROR: could not start the Display Manager [ ok ] |
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>> treat ~ # exit |
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>> Script done on Wed 08 Jul 2009 09:00:53 AM PDT |
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>> -- |
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>> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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> So is xdm emerged? Seems strange. |
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xdm comes from xinit, which is emerged. |
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> Are you using gnome by chance? You can change the display manager you |
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> choose inside of /etc/conf.d/xdm where I set gdm. emerge gdm and for |
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> me it just works. |
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Back in May, when this was working, it booted into KDE. However, |
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/etc/conf.d/xdm seems to be set to start "xdm", which is loopy. When |
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I change it to kde, it's says it's starting kde, but nothing happens |
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and the log says no devices detected and no screens found. |
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> Good luck, |
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> Mark |
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Thanks. |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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