Recently ran emerge sync && emerge -u system && emerge -u world and picked up a large number of updated and new packages. I left default /etc/conf files as provided unless I had mods in my prior default /etc/conf files (of which there were very few). Picked up latest 2.6.12-gentoo kernel along the way and compiled it up using my standard .config setup that's been working fine. Then rebooted my box and left with very primitive logon screen (xdm?). When I logged in I was setup with very primitive twm window manager. How/what config broke my xdm->alias-to->gdm setup? I tried rebooting using last stable kernel and still came to xdm instead of gdm. So kernel recompile's not the problem. Might be nice if at your web site up high there was a link to "there lie danger!" to recent gotchas in the emerges. I'll try emerge -C xdm and also look around for the alias that decides to pick up whatever logon manager, etc. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: xdm logon manager Expected Results: gdm logon manager Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ dev-lang/python: 2.1.3-r1, 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr clamav crypt ctype cups curl dba dbm dga directfb divx4linux doc dv dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd fam fame flac foomaticdb fortran freetds gb gcj gd gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gnomedb gnuplot gnustep gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jack java javascript jikes jpeg junit libg++ libwww lzo mad maildir matrox mikmod mjpeg mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mp3 mp4live mpeg mysql ncurses nentwork nls odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php plotutils png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline real rtc ruby samba sasl scanner sdl session slang soap speex spell sqlite sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l videos vorbis wavelan wxwindows xanim xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xv xvid xvmc zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
you probably overwrote your gdm setting in a conf file. ( probably rc.conf ) Check your setting at the bottom of that file.
I assume you can close this bug. rc.conf had DISPLAYMANAGER commented out. I did not do that in the past year. Possibly rc.conf was updated and the update had DISPLAYMANAGER commented out and I didn't catch that change. In any case I've edited rc.conf and all is well. Thanks.
needed user to update config
