Problem soved - I found /var/cache/fontconfig/ and removed everything.
Then I ran fc-cache and now xdm starts!
I have no idea how the font-cache file(s) got messed up, but at least
now I know where they live, and how to regen them!
On Mon, 11 Nov 2013, Paul Goyette wrote:
Some of you
Some of you readers may remember that, one only one of my machines,
after an upgrade from 6.99.23 to 6.99.24 I was unable to get X working.
I actually looked at the output from /etc/daily today, and found a big
hint to my problem. It seems that xdm is crashing and dumping core with
the