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 1O8w03-0008VL-R7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 May 2010 13:47:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29A5DE074C; Mon, 3 May 2010 13:47:42 +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 0B92EE074C for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 13:47:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn8 with SMTP id 8so2920958iwn.16 for ; Mon, 03 May 2010 06:47:41 -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=nYXYYMWETUgf0SBMmaCXSwNP423WGxrkD0+NugWjT4I=; b=JyEp7EUlHpsHraT81dwlQ+0zM8wUiuqM/jzNjTUHIgQJyw2+EA3NIkTo/pxyVCB7Kp Kd9ArzEzdI7Ec+L/OxkCwxAiras10XF+KWnZnBFqpj3fR3ljvuxh07bVEKjhnIpQk4sH 5tDYNLfyGZCmQYkf4ALXt+IScgl/8dNLwSKkQ= 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=MOM7pQBRbvS6j1UglTyN2astV21CrxfY8l2FqPRjUzHHxXbubHm+PKoa4brUfqYE4S YzjbD1qcc+YTRaBtnaR4Xr1qVdxfXXXuB8bMXVy3PFSYl4ZoDiQL6MdV5J7ubamh0Jmv +htHcmKKdfVD0GsMCNEyW84ggGCIqDxeHtO4s= 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 10.231.171.79 with SMTP id g15mr3091584ibz.75.1272894461707; Mon, 03 May 2010 06:47:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.190.132 with HTTP; Mon, 3 May 2010 06:47:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 13:47:41 +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: b5e179a2-5b62-42e5-b65f-f5f26a71dded X-Archives-Hash: ccd5b6fbf449d63b7ddf806e4f302d7f On 5/3/10, Indexer 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. > > William >