[gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-07-05, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:

>> The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to
>> log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working.  That's why I gave
>> up on graphical logins about 15 years ago.
>
> The reason it wouldn't load is that a LOT of packages, including KDE,
> needed to be recompiled after the libpng upgrade.  I already knew that.
> Text or GUI login would not matter.  Recompiling the packages was fixing
> the problem already so having a text login wouldn't help on that either.
>
> When I run into a problem with the GUi loading, I just do a ctrl alt F1,
> log in and fix it.  That is my text login trick.

As long as ctrl-alt-F1 works, that's cool.  It hasn't happened to me
for a while, but it didn't used to be at all difficult to get X broken
enough that ctrl-alt-F1 wouldn't work.

> I can also check the X
> logs that way too.  It seems to me that the way you are doing is the
> hard way.  I just type in my password to log in and it appears you have
> to log in on a console, type a command then let it load.

I type my username, my passowrd and then I type x and hit enter.

> I'll keep my way.  I like it easy when possible then do it the hard
> way if I run into a problem that requires it.

No worries.

-- 
Grant