On 03/04/2012 01:02 PM, Grant wrote: > I have two hardware-identical laptops exhibiting different behavior > WRT xdm. xdm doesn't try to start automatically on one of the laptops > but does on the other. On the one that does not start xdm, I get this > on startup: > > # rc-update -s | grep xdm > xdm | default > # /etc/init.d/xdm status > * status: stopped > # /etc/init.d/xdm start > > and xdm/lightdm starts just fine. What could be the problem? It > works perfectly on the other laptop.
There is a switch in /etc/rc.conf called rc_logger. Maybe turning it on will give you some useful info.