Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello

On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 03:29:25PM +0000, Mick wrote:
> I stopped/zapped xdm, ran startx and from an xterm I was able to run fluxbox
> which started OK.  So, I am not sure if you are right that the start up
> script crashes (I wonder, shouldn't I see something in the logs about it?)
> If it crashed wouldn't it also crash when called from within an xterm?  When
> I ran etc-update I had to update a number of scripts (some of them were
> trivial - automerged) and some of them were related to halt.sh, and so on,
> but I cannot recall any xdm related scripts.  Is there an etc-update history
> somewhere on my machine?

I didn't mean the xdm script (which, obviously, works fine), but the
script started when you log in. The one in sessions is probably the one.

Actually, how it works: xdm starts X and shows the login screen. When
you log in, it starts something on the X server. When the something
stops (for any reason), xdm restarts X and shows the login screen again.

So I think the thing started by xdm terminates too early for some
reason, crash was the first idea I got. All this is just a guess, how it
looks to me, I do not say it is the only possible cause (crashing X
could be the cause too, and xdm would just restart it).

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Michal 'vorner' Vaner