during startup, /etc/init.d/xdm fails to find the modules pcidata and bitmap and displays an error screen that the display manager failed to start. However, when starting xdm later from the command line as root, everything runs fine. Any ideas on this one? Regards, George Reproducible: Always Actual Results: xdm fails to start Expected Results: graphical login manager should start via init.d startup Here's the log from /var/log/Xorg.0.log: X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Build Operating System: UNKNOWN Current Operating System: Linux rubinium 2.6.20.2 #4 PREEMPT Sun Mar 18 14:12:43 E ST 2007 i686 Build Date: 15 March 2007 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present 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: Fri Mar 30 10:24:43 2007 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (==) ServerLayout "X.org Configured" (**) |-->Screen "notebook" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "LFP" (**) | |-->Device "Intel i855 internal" (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0" (**) |-->Input Device "Touchpad" (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0" (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/CID/" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/misc/, /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ (**) RgbPath set to "/usr/lib/X11/rgb" (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/modules" (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.3 X.Org Video Driver: 1.0 X.Org XInput driver : 0.6 X.Org Server Extension : 0.3 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.5 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module bitmap (II) UnloadModule: "bitmap" (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module pcidata (II) UnloadModule: "pcidata" (EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not exist, 0) Fatal server error: Unable to load required base modules, Exiting... (WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor (WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor emerge --info: Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.20.2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20.2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.10GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:20:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-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=pentium-m -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X X509 a52 aac ace acpi admin aim alsa amazon amr ao aoss aotuv apache2 ares arj arts asf async atm audacious audiofile autocreate automount autosieve bash-completion batch battery bcmath bdf berkdb bitmap-fonts bl bluetooth bonjour buffysize bzip2 cairo cardbus ccache cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cjk clamav cli colordiff console cracklib crypt cscope css cups curl curlwrappers cvs cvsgraph dbus dbx depth32 device-mapper dga dhcp divx djvu dmi dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eap-tls ecc eds effects emboss emf emovix enca encode enscript esd exif expat fam fat ffmpeg firefox flac fortran fping fpx ftp gcj gdbm geoip gif gimp gimpprint glibc-compat20 gmedia gmp gnome gnutella gnutls gpm gs gsm gstreamer gtk gtk2 h323 hal hfs hpn i8x0 ibam icecast iconv icq id3 idea idled idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipppd ipv6 irmc isdnlog jabber jai java java5 javascript jbig jce jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal lame lcms ldap lha libg++ libsamplerate live lm_sensors log4j logrotate logwatch lzo lzw mad matroska mbox memlimit mhash midi mikmod mime mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext mng mozdom mozsvg mp3 mp4 mp4live mpd mpeg mpeg2 mpi mplayer mppe-mppc mschap msn multiuser ncurses network nfs nis nls nntp no-seamonkey nokia6600 nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs obex offensive ogg on-the-fly-crypt opengl osc oscar oss pam passfile patented pch pcmcia pcntl pcre pda pdf perl pmu png pop portaudio posix ppds pppd print pulseaudio python qq qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime quotas rar rdesktop readline real realmedia reflection reiser4 reiserfs replytolist restrict-javascript rpc rtc samba savedconfig scanner sdl sensord server session sharedmem shorten silc smime sms sox speex spell spl srt sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subtitles subversion suid svg swat sysvipc szip tcpd tetex tga theora thunderbird tiff truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts unicode unsupported_8bit urandom usb userlocales vcd verbose vim vim-syntax vnc vncviewer vorbis wav wavpack webdav widescreen wifi win32codecs wlan wma wmf wmp x264 x86 xcomposite xext xface xfce xinetd xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yahoo yp yv12 zip zlib zsh-completion" 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 mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Remove ModulePath from your xorg.conf *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 112924 ***
