Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

[Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>]

On 5/3/10, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 03 May 2010 15:47:41 Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> On 5/3/10, Indexer <indexer@internode.on.net> 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.
>
>
> You said you did a system upgrade. Did this involve a kernel upgrade too?
>
> If so, you are likely running into missing nvidia drivers in your new
> /lib/modules/. So:
>
> - reboot to single user maintenance mode.
> - disable /etc/init.d/xdm
> - remerge nvidia-drivers, making sure that /usr/src/linux point s to the new
> kernel that is to be configured
> - reboot
> - enable /etc/init.d/xdm
> - start xdm

New kernel was downloaded, but I did not upgrade the kernel.  If that
was the situation, I wouldn't be able to load to my login screen - I
would be booted back to the command line.  I get to the login screen,
but then, everything is frozen - keyboard and mouse.

I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user
maintenance mode.  How do I do that?

Colleen