On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 03:30:43PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 13:51 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > And this is yet another example how initscripts are broken. > > I had a friend whose GDM was not coming up because it > > was starting too fast after dbus. As a last resort we rearranged > > the DAEMONS and moved gdm as the last daemon (after NM etc) > > and it magically started to work. > I use GDM too, but it's not in the DAEMONS list. > > [root@archlinux spinymouse]# grep DAEMONS /etc/rc.conf > # DAEMONS > DAEMONS=(69switch_xorg.conf hwclock syslog-ng !network !netfs crond > acpid dbus networkmanager rtirq) > [root@archlinux spinymouse]# pacman -Qi gdm > Name : gdm > Version : 3.4.1-3 > > *?* You probably use the inittab method https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Manager#inittab_method
