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