Attention! Black screen after x11-apps/xinit-1.3.4-r2 update

[yzg]

There is a bug report on this issue. Please read it before updating and rebooting.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/634706

[papas]

too late for me...
thank you anyway

[Fitzcarraldo]

Thanks for posting, yzg. I got caught out, but at least your post and link to the Gentoo Bugzilla bug report got me going again. Crazy that x11-apps/xinit was updated in the Stable branch apparently without proper testing and without leaving a previous version in the tree.
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[JohnBlbec]

[Moderator note: this post, the two immediately following it (jssilva Thu Oct 19, 2017), (The_Great_Sephiroth Thu Oct 19, 2017), and two posts from platojones were posted as a necromancy response to a vaguely similar thread from 2015 ([SOLVED] Lightdm: could not start the Display Manager). I split them from that thread to let the dead rest peacefully, and brought them here to keep everything together. -Hu]

hi. i had exactly the same problem and my gentoo is up-to-date.

could anybody tell me why there are lines in /etc/x11/startDM.sh

EXEC="$(get_options service)"
NAME="$(get_options name)"
PIDFILE="$(get_options pidfile)"
START_STOP_ARGS="$(get_options start_stop_args)"

instead of

EXEC="$(/lib/rc/bin/get_options service)"
NAME="$(/lib/rc/bin/get_options name)"
PIDFILE="$(/lib/rc/bin/get_options pidfile)"
START_STOP_ARGS="$(/lib/rc/bin/get_options start_stop_args)"

because as far as i know no update updates ROOTPATH properly

[jssilva]

I hope I'm adding some value to this conversation, and not being considered a 'me too'

I had the same problem today, I think after an update but I'm not sure because I changed some things also.

The fact is, the solution posted a few posts before didn't work for me, the path never reached the root environment; I didn't care to investigate the reason.

Instead, as a "band-aid", I just included the full path of get_options in startDM.sh, as referred on the post before mine. It's now working.

[The_Great_Sephiroth]

I just updated this morning on a FRESH INSTALL WHICH WORKED, and now I get this error. I have Plasma and SDDM. Worked fine. I synchronized, updated (five or six things when using "avuND @world"), rebooted, and now no desktop. I am about to clone this laptop to eight others. Is there a fix in the works for this? I am apprehensive about doing custom mods because if we need to reinstall at some point (say a disk dies), I may not remember the fix.
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[soundrolf]

[Moderator note: this post was originally a separate thread. As it contains a spot workaround for the issue, I merged it to the other active thread on the subject rather than sending it to Duplicate Threads. -Hu]

Gentoo amd64 stable

After todays (19.Oct.2017) update ( eix-sync and emerge -avuDN @world) , packet x11-apps/xinit has been updated.
Displaymanager (Slim) does not appear.

Solution:

Change in /etc/x11/startDM.sh

from

[asturm]

Fixed with -r3 (the actual regression did not happen in -r2, but the rebuild triggered by the revbump).
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[Naib]

thanks good catch, did a rare sync twice in one day to pull r3
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[platojones]

Yep, showed up on 2 of my machines today. I suspect it came in with a change to the latest openrc:

[platojones]

Ahhh, I should always check the bugs database:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/504140