Xdm make my screen black (was: X11 failled to run ...)

[joel.soete@freebel.net]

Thanks to all for advices,

I finaly add LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /etc/profile. With last hurd package I reach to
create the kbd device then I launch the translator for my PS/2 mouse. And startx
works fine (even thought I do not yet find the way to launch rxvt).

Then I try to launch /etc/init.d/xdm start. xdm seems to begin to init monitor
but nothing more happened and no way to come back to a tty. Also I only have to
hardly reboot my box and so I lost all trace which could be write to xdm.log.

Thanks in advance for additional help,
        Joel

PS:
1. I had to chown root:root /tmp dir which cames with gid=1000 with the H1 CD
instll (this make startx to failed: suspicious non root:root owner of /tmp/.X11...)

2. Does it exist a way to have access to a serial consol to try to take back the
control of the box to avoid the hard reboot?


Quoting joel.soete@freebel.net:

> Hi all,
> 
> Using HURD CD's (H1 date 20011107), I just reinstall from scratch my
> hurd-i386 box.
> 
> Everything seems to works more or less fine.
> 
> After the initial.sh was completed I used apt-cdrom to add cd:
>         # settrans -a /cdrom /hurd/isofs /dev/hd1
>         # apt-cdrom add
>           ...
>         # settrans -agf /cdrom 
> and so on for the tree CD's. And finally complete with apt-get update.
> 
> Then I install xdm with apt-get install xdm which was completed
> successfully :<))
> (I fill lucky because all packages stand on the same CD)
> 
> I first mount my woody root fs to get my operational XF86config files
> (xfree86-4.1.0-9).
> Then I try to launch "/etc/init.d/xdm start"[1] which complained that it
> can not
> load libXpm.so.4, file does not exist . (startx command complained of
> lack of
> libXmuu.so.4)
> 
> I have a look and those files were well installed by xlibs package and
> ther are
> links.
> On the other hand /etc/ld.so.conf contains well the path to X11R6 libs
> (as in my
> linux box: /usr/X11R6/lib).
> Then I try ldconfig and retry [1]. No more success (same error
> message)?
> 
> But no ld.so.cache was created. So is there something broken with ld?
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks in advance for help and congratulation for nice job,
>         Joel
> 
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