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From: Remy Blank <remy.blank@pobox.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 16:40:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hrmn9a$vep$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u2r2db4be991005030649k16eea56dld07af6fb9250dab4@mail.gmail.com>

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Colleen Beamer wrote:
> How am I supposed to do this when I can't login and I can't kill X?

Boot from a live CD, then perform a chroot into your system as described
in the Gentoo handbook[1] or on the Gentoo wiki[2], then you should be
able to emerge as if you were running your system normally.

-- Remy

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6
[2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Chroot_from_a_livecd


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-03 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-03 13:31 [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 13:40 ` Hazen Valliant-Saunders
2010-05-03 13:44   ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 13:57     ` Philip Webb
2010-05-03 14:10       ` Dale
2010-05-03 20:13         ` CJoeB
2010-05-03 22:53           ` Dale
2010-05-03 14:26       ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-04  9:56     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-03 13:41 ` Indexer
2010-05-03 13:47   ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 13:58     ` Indexer
2010-05-03 14:04     ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-03 14:30       ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 14:56         ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-03 15:06           ` KH
2010-05-03 15:10             ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-03 16:22           ` Willie Wong
2010-05-03 16:41             ` Dale
2010-05-03 14:56         ` Hazen Valliant-Saunders
2010-05-03 14:07     ` Dale
2010-05-03 13:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2010-05-03 13:49   ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 14:40     ` Remy Blank [this message]
2010-05-03 15:09     ` Peter Humphrey
2010-05-03 16:04     ` Frank Steinmetzger

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