After install xorg-x11, which installs x11-apps/xinit, startx doesn't work, writing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 64: exec: XTERM: not found Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # emerge xorg-x11 ... (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml) ... 2. $ startx Actual Results: $ startx xauth: creating new authority file /home/juan/.serverauth.2140 X.Org X Server 1.7.1 Release Date: 2009-10-23 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.30-tuxonice-r6 i686 Current Operating System: Linux aspire 2.6.31-tuxonice #1 SMP Tue Nov 17 04:34:43 CST 2009 i686 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda5 video=uvesafb:1280x800-32@60,mtrr:3,ywrap Build Date: 15 November 2009 02:55:32PM Current version of pixman: 0.16.2 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Nov 18 11:12:40 2009 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" Setting master record: RECORD extension enabled at configure time. record: This extension is known to be broken, disabling extension now.. record: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20500 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols > Ignoring extra symbols Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 64: exec: XTERM: not found waiting for X server to shut down Dropping master Expected Results: XServer should start normally i've solved this making a soft link: # cd /usr/bin # ln -s xterm XTERM $ startx and it starts normally # emerge --info Portage 2.1.7.5 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r0, 2.6.31-tuxonice i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-tuxonice-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T5750_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.2-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo fam firefox flac fortran ftp gdbm geoip gif gpm gstreamer hal handbook hddtemp iconv imagemagick imap ipv6 java java6 javascript jpeg kde lame ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad matroska mikmod mime modules mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg msn mudflap musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sqlite sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads thunar tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis wifi win32codecs x264 x86 xcomposite xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
fixed in 1.2.0-r1
