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From: Hazen Valliant-Saunders <hazenvs@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 09:40:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v2id07a70781005030640oac783345xbc9c9d860783cf15@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v2g2db4be991005030631pd070686dg60634ef228db9311@mail.gmail.com>

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Disable your xdm login script;

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?
>
>


-- 
Hazen Valliant-Saunders
IT/IS Consultant
(613) 355-5977

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-03 13:41 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 [this message]
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
2010-05-03 15:09     ` Peter Humphrey
2010-05-03 16:04     ` Frank Steinmetzger

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