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

[Dale]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> 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.
>

In that off chance, use the SysRq keys to get it back.  If that doesn't 
work, you got to reboot anyway.

>
>> 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.
>

Yea, more stuff to type in for the off change the GUI doesn't work.  
That's a lot of typing for a rare failure.  So far, the only time I 
could not switch back to a console was when trying to use hal with xorg.

>
>> 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.
>
>

Dale

:-)  :-)