Apparently, though unproven, at 12:50 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly:
> On Monday 03 January 2011 14:40:41 walt wrote: > > I'm wondering if you have some mixture of baselayout versions on that > > machine from previous updates. > > Unlikely: this box has been ~amd64 since before it had a complete > system. > > > Could your machine be trying to start something other than kdm by > > mistake? I.e., maybe you are starting kdm for the first time from > > the VT instead of re-starting it? > > Also unlikely. > > I tried taking xdm out of the default run-level and calling both it and > xdm-setup in /etc/conf.d/local. It started up ok then. Do you have rc_parallel="YES" in /etc/rc.conf? Try setting it to NO. If stuff then works right, we know your start order is incorrect and I would be suspecting you declined an update in /etc/init.d/ that you should have accepted. Dunno how you would fix that easily apart from re-emerging everything related that creates an init script. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
