Yeah, I have to echo that I rather dislike the config file system in portage. It would be nice if there was an alternative to etc-update, or something configurable to just copy in relevant sections, or cross reference them.
Justin On 7/4/05, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I've been using gdm and fluxbox for a long time, last weekend I did a > complete update of the system, and changed all my config files to the > new ones (REALLY stupid). So, I'm in a slow and painful recover > process, nothing to difficult, but extremely boring. > > Anyway, after the update, I couldn't start gdm, so, editing rc.conf > and a few others got gdm running, but now I have a different problem, > when I run gdm at display 0 (virtual console 7) it doesn't allow my > default user to logon, the session crashes with errors like "no > permission to access display 0:0". > > If I run startx with the exec of startfluxbox on it, I can run it, but > it seems that gdm is somehow messed up, because if I run startx then > start gdm at console 8 (display 1), it runs fine and allows me to > login (?). Any ideas? > > -- > Daniel da Veiga > Computer Operator - RS - Brazil > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
