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On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Neil Bothwick<neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:24:01 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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>> >> /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or |
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>> >> directory |
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>> > You don't have xdm installed, have you checked /etc/conf.d/xdm? |
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>> I do have xinit, which installs /etc/init.d/xdm. I see no ebuild |
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>> called xdm, so if there's something else I need, please tell me. |
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> ]% eix -e xdm |
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> * x11-apps/xdm |
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> Available versions: 1.1.8 {debug ipv6 pam} |
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> Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ |
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> Description: X.Org xdm application |
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> If you want to use xdm, you need to install it. This is different from |
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> the xdm init script, which runs whichever display manager you tell it to. |
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> If you look at the comments in /etc/conf.d/xdm, it tells you what the |
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> options are. Follow it's advice to get it to use whichever display |
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> manager you want. Alternatively, check a backup from before things stop |
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> working and see what the file said then. |
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As many have pointed out, you don't set "kde". I knew that, and put |
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"kdm" in the config file, but described it as "kde" because that's how |
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I think about it. I'm not completely stupid. |
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On the other hand, I really did think I had searched for "xdm" and not |
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found it. So I'm partly stupid. Now things are more intelligible to |
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me. X is still not working, but you can see about that in a different |
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thread. |
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> -- |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> If you can smile when things go wrong then you have someone in mind to |
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> blame. |
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Or, as in my case, you've realized just how stupid most of reality is, |
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no company excepted. And found it both futile and funny |
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simultaneously. |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |