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 1O8wbu-0003po-6A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 May 2010 14:27:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A53B0E0759; Mon, 3 May 2010 14:26:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f178.google.com (mail-iw0-f178.google.com [209.85.223.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72BAFE0759 for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 14:26:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn8 with SMTP id 8so2964598iwn.16 for ; Mon, 03 May 2010 07:26:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=ysRwhlOG1stV0042OdENYHpn59TlFGtEA28XRxIlxcM=; b=vYRJe/ZrM0lGRJxo9iBqQQf4F/utMlDPIyjb0r7VC90h3009jf96Iyr/oAGwrXs75f DbsMnEaDVsbZkAcAd+2IZe1VwbRD35rchuN2UF3CjCkHXz80wdD1sG4pmgD0y90ncXCj N4RbcKtgHOYzll1njBpm8CaHAkcwp50OLGMoI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=TC6QOMTcGe9ElmtyE2xWiwFYCm306tDaaA8Pan+A48UuZmALVlNVZelzDarvz786Y1 CMHL5z2Gu8SCUQg5s9BpSb3CFOtaa2jQxpid1Ll4WRN7yqVkcXklajQxm+20WM9nXSBw LUF3TCXasbM0X7r5EWLV5EbS+Fi9fQaboT7HU= 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 10.231.172.210 with SMTP id m18mr330313ibz.21.1272896784049; Mon, 03 May 2010 07:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.190.132 with HTTP; Mon, 3 May 2010 07:26:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100503135725.GM4474@ca.inter.net> References: <20100503135725.GM4474@ca.inter.net> Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 14:26:24 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade From: Colleen Beamer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 6b931aff-0dbe-4234-8634-f14f124b4306 X-Archives-Hash: a902e166a0de6a3c32a3f53dd12cf856 On 5/3/10, Philip Webb wrote: > 100503 Colleen Beamer wrote: >> 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. > > Yes, it happened to me long ago, > after which I decided always to boot to a raw terminal, then do 'startx'. > > You need to use System Rescue or similar to get into the box, > then change your boot procedure to boot to a raw terminal. How do I do that? Regards, Colleen