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 1OW4eJ-0003H9-Lm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:41:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2E56E0938; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D79E0938 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk28 with SMTP id 28so1118252gxk.40 for ; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:40:08 -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=ViydBGNsjAyKD4bBiPOif34J1Pof45DmrEXasRfPZ8c=; b=fcHAQr0VkKgFCc6Db86E80mpP5eS886JDiQxUhSYmwgXMy0HkiNSzoCuXaMXSpPf4p 1xRD26NPCWFaZqeoMzK8be1zAgW+2DNcG5W6qJPQhoCTV+yvs851Ang2T9sp/vXH9oEb UEu++qzKBu2VoB3TYp3B2SxPpVxalVJusjelA= 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=p1/v8cVkSmbxmgTDE+6AkY+cwj3g2eBXVeABWVbPM900yWre3b75KtMOAcIUTZUjzi MzPX9uHJNSNSUoTJpy3TwMGRXk5NX2YioexgDEA6HAhu6xf8zFmExOzrxVV99U+QJ2/0 E0tBe+U96r5X4Ljq+6Ow31SdLUwQw6vZxTkjk= Received: by 10.100.191.19 with SMTP id o19mr5384112anf.11.1278409208489; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-153-40.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.153.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l6sm49720053ang.38.2010.07.06.02.40.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C32F9F6.7000204@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:40:06 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100630 Gentoo/2.0.5 SeaMonkey/2.0.5 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] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4 References: <201006292356.56520.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201006302217.29690.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201006302352.14268.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100701010550.GA10553@math.princeton.edu> <20100704125211.GA12340@ca.inter.net> <4C30B5D4.7060704@gmail.com> <20100704191005.GB23296@ca.inter.net> <4C30F2C8.6030800@gmail.com> <4C317611.8060209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c1aed06b-0f5b-450a-a0ca-8399f5d1f7bb X-Archives-Hash: 62616deb85b4ef80d0e937bc0006cf9d Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-07-05, Dale wrote: > >> Grant Edwards wrote: >> > >>> The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to >>> log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave >>> up on graphical logins about 15 years ago. >>> >> The reason it wouldn't load is that a LOT of packages, including KDE, >> needed to be recompiled after the libpng upgrade. I already knew that. >> Text or GUI login would not matter. Recompiling the packages was fixing >> the problem already so having a text login wouldn't help on that either. >> >> When I run into a problem with the GUi loading, I just do a ctrl alt F1, >> log in and fix it. That is my text login trick. >> > As long as ctrl-alt-F1 works, that's cool. It hasn't happened to me > for a while, but it didn't used to be at all difficult to get X broken > enough that ctrl-alt-F1 wouldn't work. > In that off chance, use the SysRq keys to get it back. If that doesn't work, you got to reboot anyway. > >> I can also check the X >> logs that way too. It seems to me that the way you are doing is the >> hard way. I just type in my password to log in and it appears you have >> to log in on a console, type a command then let it load. >> > I type my username, my passowrd and then I type x and hit enter. > Yea, more stuff to type in for the off change the GUI doesn't work. That's a lot of typing for a rare failure. So far, the only time I could not switch back to a console was when trying to use hal with xorg. > >> I'll keep my way. I like it easy when possible then do it the hard >> way if I run into a problem that requires it. >> > No worries. > > Dale :-) :-)