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Singe User (is from the kernel) you select the boot option via grub |
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People refer to this as "Maintenance Mode" although to be frank every gentoo |
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system is always in maintenence mode (kinda like perpetual beta) |
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http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html |
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It's the same idea just a diffrent distro; |
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Once you are in single user mode verify all mounted partitions: |
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#mount |
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Then navigate to your xorg.conf; (under /etc/) |
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and edit it to fix your issues or |
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Navigate to your home directory |
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/home/~username# and change the way you login by editing the approriate |
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files (depending on your x display manager) |
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Or conversly, if you are using a live cd: |
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1. mount your partitions a |
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2. ch root into your Gentoo install (you are now in single user mode) |
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3. Make the appropriate edits |
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as always your milage may vary; HTH |
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On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> On 5/3/10, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Monday 03 May 2010 15:47:41 Colleen Beamer wrote: |
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> >> On 5/3/10, Indexer <indexer@××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> >> > On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: |
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> >> >> Hi, |
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> >> >> Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, |
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> >> >> but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I |
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> >> >> am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and |
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> my |
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> >> >> mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the |
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> >> >> xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver. |
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> >> >> |
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> >> >> I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the |
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> >> >> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured. |
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> >> >> |
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> >> >> Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get |
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> >> >> into the system to write this. |
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> >> >> |
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> >> >> Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete |
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> >> >> reinstall? |
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> >> > I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set |
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> >> > evdev in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set |
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> >> > start on boot as xorg now needs it for keyboard and mouse. |
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> >> This would be good if I could get to a terminal seesion, but I can't. |
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> >> The keyboard doesn't work and I can't login. |
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> >> Right now, I am using a Kubuntu live CD and mounting is disabled. |
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> > You said you did a system upgrade. Did this involve a kernel upgrade too? |
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> > If so, you are likely running into missing nvidia drivers in your new |
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> > /lib/modules/. So: |
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> > - reboot to single user maintenance mode. |
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> > - disable /etc/init.d/xdm |
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> > - remerge nvidia-drivers, making sure that /usr/src/linux point s to the |
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> new |
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> > kernel that is to be configured |
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> > - reboot |
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> > - enable /etc/init.d/xdm |
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> > - start xdm |
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> New kernel was downloaded, but I did not upgrade the kernel. If that |
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> was the situation, I wouldn't be able to load to my login screen - I |
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> would be booted back to the command line. I get to the login screen, |
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> but then, everything is frozen - keyboard and mouse. |
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> I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user |
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> maintenance mode. How do I do that? |
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> Colleen |
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Hazen Valliant-Saunders |
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IT/IS Consultant |
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