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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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