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 1O8wJv-0002T3-1u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 May 2010 14:08:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E311E0776; Mon, 3 May 2010 14:08:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f178.google.com (mail-iw0-f178.google.com [209.85.223.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 794B7E0776 for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 14:08:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn8 with SMTP id 8so2944651iwn.16 for ; Mon, 03 May 2010 07:08:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=IeDk8HlPKTG0M6X0huCfVkZFY3hS/9HD904H93h90Eo=; b=DWD5yXnDzlHfe5cIEGDa70uqlXkwMuq384RbbZYNB1W7KzEcs817eylzSGV9YJV5rX /YwSUM+qx6/fbiQojgpjPHAq7QFDmL1jTTNLLx60TQhYadbp5v4dX9rQjVjSyX/m2ffe yBZqtBNoxWMpYy6tqdrykz7+GjRjyqZuiUoMQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=L56WINB37ouCHpdNkT3kSHYgZI2bIaL+NPhTN3vhZzYyNUgYg7APaMXTHSf/RXRqPJ C14FICu3BLlxovm4vgzKO8Ph8+ETl4WA4dKC+lEA+0qSNefB9O/FetF2YdmcXG1OBs0c 0ZiYoGpd9phMa6uqGXeHUw0dPFKoZPiHmeP7E= Received: by 10.231.166.8 with SMTP id k8mr283479iby.93.1272895680686; Mon, 03 May 2010 07:08:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-122-95.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.122.95]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ha13sm1101120ibb.3.2010.05.03.07.07.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 03 May 2010 07:07:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BDED8BC.8040500@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 09:07:56 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100409 Gentoo/2.0.4-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 279360f4-e29d-43ef-8100-d11e65cc7ad9 X-Archives-Hash: eff1ae4a1597d6fcaa20daa9e10e4a5b Colleen Beamer wrote: > On 5/3/10, Indexer 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. > >> William >> >> Try this: Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken When I had this issue, I would get a console when I got to the E or I. This is what each keystroke does tho: e sends TERM to all processes (except init) i kills all processes (except init) s syncs partitions u remounts everything ro b boots a box o turns off a box k saks a box - kills all processes on that vt r unraws the keyboard - takes it away from X. I hope that will get you back to a console at least. Then you can start doing the things others have suggested you try. Dale :-) :-)