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 1Re4fv-0004zx-Du for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:56:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50A6321C09E; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E1A21C091 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaai1 with SMTP id i1so3524628eaa.40 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:55:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8ZLQS0rxXp8pyrIVDC/upPsK9Ucz2fiTBVG+Shd1ya4=; b=JEV71AbrAVoqnq9COOuAOrN9x2hqP+kMymu4XUg/ZVzxjfn/3qTwXqnOQ1pL2bzfkN C0+WAwNEpg/sTIeDPQJzfKWCC0ic6IWbnzBarXDbW9W+Uw8Eq5nSJqjXHca0U05japaW d4pKmG9pEqyztEezAm2Gi3+iNmOPlOj3yDHAI= 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 Received: by 10.204.129.213 with SMTP id p21mr2755180bks.8.1324644926292; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:55:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.226.72 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:55:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4EF415B1.4080100@gmail.com> References: <4EF2E40E.3030403@gmail.com> <20111222135813.42263034@weird.wonkology.org> <4EF415B1.4080100@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:55:26 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GDM kbd/mouse lockup after emerge --update on a stable amd64 platform - need hints to cure From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 297a7162-6aa0-40c0-bd48-c1f99ac6f8ac X-Archives-Hash: 0787c857ac79f5a26c27b3bec27f0425 On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Alex Schuster >> =C2=A0wrote: >>> G.Wolfe Woodbury writes: >>>> On 12/22/2011 02:00 AM, Pint=C3=A9r Tibor wrote: >>>>> Reemerge all xf86* packages >>>>> Quite obvious as the log clearly gives the clue (new xorg server >>>>> version, driver version mismatch) >>>> >>>> I looked right at it and missed the obvious! =C2=A0Thanks for the >>>> clue-by-four. >>> >>> BTW, emerge -a @x11-module-rebuild will do this. >>> >>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Wonko >>> >> emerge: There are no sets to satisfy 'x11-module-rebuild'. The >> following sets exist: >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 selected >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 system >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 world >> > > Someone posted this one liner a while back: > > emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/) > > That takes care of the video driver, mouse, keyboard and such. =C2=A0Mine= is > these packages: > > root@fireball / # qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers > x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev > x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv > x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa > root@fireball / # I wound up doing something similar, involving a mix of eix, grep and sed. > > I try to remember to run that when I upgrade the kernel or xorg. =C2=A0I = usually > forget and have to do the SysReq keystroke magic. =C2=A0After I slap my f= orehead > of course. I still don't know the SysReq magic. I've just ssh'd in. If I can't do that, it usually means something hardlocked. > > There are quite a few of these commands that gets posted from time to tim= e. > =C2=A0As a hint, I have a text file in my /root directory that contains t= he > commands and a description. =C2=A0I just cat and grep the file when I nee= d to. =C2=A0I > wouldn't recommend a user directory tho. =C2=A0If for someone reason only= root is > mounted, then you can get to /root but not /home if it is a separate > partition. =C2=A0You, and other Gentooers, may want to think about doing > something like this. > > Hope this helps in some small way. Funny thing is, I thought I'd taken care of it. It didn't crop up for me until xscreensaver kicked in, which crashed X due to differeing ABI versions between what was already running and what xscreensaver tried to get linked in. Guess I should remember to restart X. :) --=20 :wq