Bug 44003 – entranced not found, however PATH does contain it (XDM script)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

[Description Arlo 2004-03-07 21:41:33 UTC]

I'm using the entrance X login manager.  I insert DISPLAYMANAGER="entrance"
At boot I get:
which: no entranced in 
(/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3:/opt/ati/bin:/opt/Acrobat5:/opt/stuffit/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/javaws:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.2/sbin:/usr/kde/3.2/bin:/usr/kde/3.1/sbin:/usr/kde/3.1/bin)

entranced is at /usr/local/sbin/entranced, which is in the PATH searched by which at this point.

After not finding entranced,xdm will boot the ugly default X display manager.

If I simply switch to a VT and log-in with root and do:
'/etc/init.d/xdm restart'
Entrance will start fine.

I don't understand why entranced is not found at the first start of xdm but is found when I restart xdm.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Entrance
2. Set rc.conf DISPLAYMANAGER="entrance"
3. Reboot.

Actual Results:  
which displays warning.
Default X display manager starts.

Expected Results:  
Started entrance.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-07-23 23:07:02 UTC]

use the entrance in portage

[Comment 2 Arlo 2004-07-24 20:35:11 UTC]

It works at this point, I'm not sure what the problem was.  Somewhere along with all the system changes I've made it was fixed.