Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

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

On 5/3/10, Hazen Valliant-Saunders <hazenvs@gmail.com> wrote:
> Disable your xdm login script;

I can't disable my xdm login script.  My computer boots to the login
screen and the keyboard doesn't work so I can'l login to get a
terminal session.

>
> Regards,
> Hazen.
>
>
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Colleen Beamer
> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>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?
>>
>>
>
>
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> Hazen Valliant-Saunders
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