Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

[Indexer <indexer@internode.on.net>]

On 03/05/2010, at 11:17 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote:

> On 5/3/10, Indexer <indexer@internode.on.net> wrote:
>> 
>> On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> Yesterday, I updated my system.  On reboot, I get to my login screen,
>>> but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I
>>> am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my
>>> mouse is frozen.  I don't know if this has something do do with the
>>> xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver.
>>> 
>>> I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the
>>> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured.
>>> 
>>> Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get
>>> into the system to write this.
>>> 
>>> Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall?
>>> 
>> 
>> I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set evdev
>> in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set to start on
>> boot as xorg now needs it for keyboard and mouse.
> 
> This would be good if I could get to a terminal seesion, but I can't.
> The keyboard doesn't work and I can't login.
> 
> Right now, I am using a Kubuntu live CD and mounting is disabled.


 How do you mean mounting is disabled? Open a terminal and type sudo mount /dev/sd<blah> ???

From there you can either chroot in, or you can manually stop xdm by removing the file /etc/runlevels/default/xdm (instead of using rc-update)

>> 
>> William
>> 
>