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On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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>>> |
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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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>>> |
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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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>>> |
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>>> Script done on Wed 08 Jul 2009 09:00:53 AM PDT |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> -- |
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>>> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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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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emerge is not careful about xdm.conf so you might have had correct |
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settings earlier and then a new emerge over wrote something when you |
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weren't looking. |
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inside xdm.conf you can choose xdm, kdm or gdm. I choose gdm as I use |
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Gnome and XFCE. |
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HTH, |
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Mark |
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