From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O8xGo-0008I7-Nh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 May 2010 15:09:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C3E4E0864; Mon, 3 May 2010 15:09:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 697EEE0864 for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 15:09:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D26B0DEB89 for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 16:09:09 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id SRSRQukvxzeR for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 16:09:09 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A35ADDEB87 for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 16:09:09 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 16:09:08 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.33-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005031609.08799.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 4a1bf488-78e0-4111-979e-808d8a6c6872 X-Archives-Hash: f83dd2b32762b0407e8767132a707631 On Monday 03 May 2010 14:49:24 Colleen Beamer wrote: > On 5/3/10, Remy Blank wrote: > >> Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete > >> reinstall? > > > > I would start by re-emerging xf86-input-keyboard and > > xf86-input-mouse, as suggested in the xorg-server ebuild messages. > > > > -- Remy > > How am I supposed to do this when I can't login and I can't kill X? I sense your frustration! We've all been in a tight spot like this. Here's my suggestion: Don't allow X to start at boot time. When you see the grub boot menu, select the kernel you want to boot and press "e" for Edit. Then select the kernel command line and press "e" again to edit it. Add softlevel=nonetwork to the end of the line, press Enter and then B. You will then start up with a full set of six VTs (consoles), at which you can do the remerging that's been suggested. Personally, I'd do this: emerge -av1 `qlist -I -C x11-drivers` With any luck you'll then be able to reboot and run as usual. HTH -- Rgds Peter.