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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new install not starting gdm (Solved)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:14:48
Message-Id: yu9fw65fpf9.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] new install not starting gdm by Allan Gottlieb
1 On Tue, Sep 25 2012, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
2
3 > I am building a new installation and must have messed up a step as gdm
4 > doesn't start from boot
5 >
6 > If I manually execute
7 > eselect rc restart xdm
8 > I get
9 >
10 > Sep 25 20:10:51 newlap gnome-keyring-daemon[2106]: couldn't create
11 > socket directory: No such file or directory
12 > Sep 25 20:10:51 newlap gnome-keyring-daemon[2106]: couldn't bind to
13 > control socket: /root/.cache/keyring-dJpHuM/control: No such file or
14 > directory
15 >
16 > which appears to be the problem and can also be found in /log/messages
17
18 I didn't have dbus started. The easy fix was
19
20 eselect rc add dbus default
21
22 allan