[gentoo-user] new install not starting gdm

[Allan Gottlieb]

I am building a new installation and must have messed up a step as gdm doesn't start from boot

If I manually execute
   eselect rc restart xdm
I get

Sep 25 20:10:51 newlap gnome-keyring-daemon[2106]: couldn't create socket directory: No such file or directory
Sep 25 20:10:51 newlap gnome-keyring-daemon[2106]: couldn't bind to control socket: /root/.cache/keyring-dJpHuM/control: No such file or directory

which appears to be the problem and can also be found in /log/messages

I have installed xorg-x11, xdm and gnome and /var/log/Xorg.0.log looks
OK.  The only complaints are failing to load vesa, modsetting, and
fbdev drivers.  However, the intel driver loads fine.

/var/log/dmesg ends with entries saying that EXT4-fs mounted
filesystems.  No gdm/xdm/X/keyring complaints.

What step did I miss?

thanks,
allan