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 1O8vty-0007vS-HM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 May 2010 13:41:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF0A1E06EC; Mon, 3 May 2010 13:41:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail13.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.98]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2093E06EC for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 13:41:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.24.0.138] (unverified [203.122.194.109]) by mail.internode.on.net (SurgeMail 3.8f2) with ESMTP id 23010562-1927428 for ; Mon, 03 May 2010 23:11:26 +0930 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 (Apple Message framework v1078) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade From: Indexer In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 23:11:23 +0930 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) X-Archives-Salt: eaafec8c-0e5e-448c-ac5d-646a1d92488f X-Archives-Hash: d69af08727a6f5691bcb2b47f41b84d6 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. >=20 > I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured. >=20 > Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get > into the system to write this. >=20 > Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete = reinstall? >=20 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. =20 William=