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On 03/05/2010, at 11:17 PM, 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 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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>>> 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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>>> 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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>>> Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? |
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>> I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set evdev |
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>> in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set to start on |
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>> 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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How do you mean mounting is disabled? Open a terminal and type sudo mount /dev/sd<blah> ??? |
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From there you can either chroot in, or you can manually stop xdm by removing the file /etc/runlevels/default/xdm (instead of using rc-update) |
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>> William |
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