Updating baselayout from 1.13.0_alpha12 to 2.0.0_alpha1, xdm fails to load: /etc/init.d/xdm: line 119: ebegin: command not found /etc/init.d/xdm: line 121: save_options: command not found start-stop-daemon: option `--exec' requires an argument * ERROR: could not start the Display Manager /etc/init.d/xdm: line 133: eend: command not found * ERROR: xdm failed to start I did run dispatch-conf after updating baselayout and before rebooting. I downgraded baselayout to 1.13.0_alpha12 after this and other issues. Portage 2.1.2.3 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System release 1.13.0_alpha12 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r5 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.20-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -ggdb -ffriend-injection" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ " LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=120" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/wrobel /usr/portage/local/layman/gnome-experimental /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/overlays/myoverlay /usr/local/overlays/bmg-main" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac alsa amd64 amr bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups dbus debug dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility ldap libg++ libnotify mad midi mikmod mono mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre perl pic png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sdl session spell spl sqlite ssl tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vcd vorbis x264 xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1 intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nvidia" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
I had the same problem. I appears that "DISPLAYMANAGER" is suppose to be set in /etc/conf.d/xdm instead of /etc/rc.conf now. I set DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm in /etc/conf.d/xdm and it works fine.
You'll also need to ensure that the xdm init script is etc-updated properly. DISPLAYMANAGER can still be set in /etc/rc.conf and still stamp on any value in /etc/init.d/xdm Re-open if you disagree.
