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 1O8xEK-00080e-9I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 May 2010 15:06:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA414E0849; Mon, 3 May 2010 15:06:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.9]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A43E0849 for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 15:06:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.30] (dslb-188-098-074-042.pools.arcor-ip.net [188.98.74.42]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0M2YjJ-1NH7iY3Wp3-00szH3; Mon, 03 May 2010 17:06:19 +0200 Message-ID: <4BDEE66B.2020802@konstantinhansen.de> Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 17:06:19 +0200 From: KH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100419 Thunderbird/3.0.4 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: <201005031604.31984.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201005031656.04901.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201005031656.04901.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18BgdN8jiBtgNSUp59kO0YVpuvlLrL2DoiXTZK GbZYi/0eRb69m0WM5yGgY6fsPsV704ts2olg0QG9ovoVHLIE1B 2fEP+0d8bc15KNmgfEB5w== X-Archives-Salt: 4d6fd4df-29b3-4e16-aa93-6e335e5775a3 X-Archives-Hash: 12124c91baddabb7df23c8b5821c013a Am 03.05.2010 16:56, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Monday 03 May 2010 16:30:53 Colleen Beamer wrote: [...] > >> I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user >> maintenance mode. How do I do that? > > At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot. > Press "e" > Move cursor to the "kernel" line > Press "e" > Move cursor to the end of the line. Append " 1" or " single" > Press > Press "b" > > This will load the kernel and run a modified start-up sequence (not the > regular init command). You get a root shell which is quite limited but usually > adequate for repairing broken system. > > In a way, it's very similar to booting into a LiveCD without having to go and > find the CD first > Hi, and again I learnd something I didn't know, jet. Anyway I also would try to follow Dales advise with pressing "i" during boot. Also some time ago I had a problem after an upgrade with my keyboard. Changing to usb was the workaround for me (the keyboard has usb and the ps2?). Anyway I never fixed the problem. Regards kh