>>> Has anyone set up lightdm? I'm using it with the default config file >>> but I get a black screen with no error in Xorg.0.log. gdm works fine. >>> Any ideas? >> >> I'm not using lightdm, but my understanding is that it's as minimalist >> as you can get while still technically using a display manager. Check >> into its configuration in /etc/config, etc. Find out exactly what it's >> using (launching) for an xinitrc. >> >> Also check out ~/.X*, and see if there are any user-local errors or logs of >> use. > > Thanks, got it working by recompiling udev as mentioned in the last > comment here: > > http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2011/09/18/lightdm-on-gentoo-artwork-needed/ > > - Grant
It stopped working. I have the same problem described here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395327 It hangs with this from /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log: DEBUG: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0 It does this on 2 of my systems but succeeds on the other. The next lines on the successful system are: DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0 The fix described in the bug is to add dbus to use in /etc/init.d/xdm but dbus is already in there. dbus is currently started on all 3 systems. Any ideas? - Grant
