Desktop Environment Died [Good Enough]

[bjk2007]

That pretty much sums it up. X will run on boot, but it comes up with twm and not the Sabayon login screen. Killing X and running /etc/init.d/xdm start just brings twm back up again. I must have damaged something when I was doing updates to the packages on my system. Basically my question is does anyone know if there's a simple way to resolve this or should I just go ahead and reinstall Sabayon? It would be slightly annoying to do that since I was finally starting to get everything set up how I wanted. But I guess if I have to I can. I've already tried remerging xdm and kdebase-meta, but that didn't help.

So if anyone has any ideas or suggestions on what to do to repair this I'd really appreciate it; otherwise I think I'm just going to have to reinstall my system. Thanks in advance.

[wolfden]

got to watch them config files

what does /etc/conf.d/xdm say? DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"

or your

/etc/rc.conf

[bjk2007]

Yeah, I don't have a very good track record on them right now do I. Twice in less than a week. Portage based systems really don't like to be updated.

Anyway, I changed /etc/conf.d/xdm's display manager to kdm from xdm and it's working now. Only side effect is the kde login screen has replaced Sabayon's default one, but that's a minor detail. Thanks for help. I'll try not to clobber any more config files .

[bjk2007]

Only side effect is the kde login screen has replaced Sabayon's default one, but that's a minor detail.

I take that back; beryl's messed up now and keeps crashing when I start it. Oh well, it's only eye candy. I'll get around to figure out how to repair that in a little while.