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On 12/26/11 14:54, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On 12/25/2011 02:51 PM, CJoeB wrote: |
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>> On 12/25/11 14:20, Michael Hampicke wrote: |
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>>>> Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my |
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>>>> KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or |
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>>>> anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer |
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>>>> booted okay and gave me my login screen, but neither the keyboard nor |
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>>>> the mouse work. |
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>>> Wild guess: xorg-server was upgraded to a newer version with changed |
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>>> ABI, so you have to remerge everthing installed under x11-drivers |
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>>> # emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/) |
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>> It's a little hard to do that since, I boot to a login screen and |
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>> neither my keyboard nor mouse work - despite the fact that the cursor |
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>> places itself in the password field on the login screen, I can't enter |
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>> my password since the keyboard doesn't work. :-) |
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> If it happens again, in GRUB edit the kernel commandline and append |
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> "gentoo=nox" to it and that will prevent Gentoo from starting your |
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> graphical login manager. Or, better yet, create a second menu entry in |
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> grub for "no X" right now, so it'll be there if you need it in the future. |
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Thanks. This info was already provided to me. I made a note of it in |
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the place where I keep my "Gentoo tips" so, I'll have this available to |
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me if I need it again! :-) |
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Regards, |
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Colleen |
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