Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 03 May 2010 15:47:41 Colleen Beamer wrote:
> On 5/3/10, Indexer <indexer@××××××××××××.net> wrote:
> > On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> Yesterday, I updated my system.  On reboot, I get to my login screen,
> >> but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I
> >> am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my
> >> mouse is frozen.  I don't know if this has something do do with the
> >> xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver.
> >>
> >> I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the
> >> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured.
> >>
> >> Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get
> >> into the system to write this.
> >>
> >> Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall?
> >
> > I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set
> > evdev in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set to
> > start on boot as xorg now needs it for keyboard and mouse.
>
> This would be good if I could get to a terminal seesion, but I can't.
> The keyboard doesn't work and I can't login.
>
> Right now, I am using a Kubuntu live CD and mounting is disabled.


You said you did a system upgrade. Did this involve a kernel upgrade too?

If so, you are likely running into missing nvidia drivers in your new 
/lib/modules/. So:

- reboot to single user maintenance mode.
- disable /etc/init.d/xdm
- remerge nvidia-drivers, making sure that /usr/src/linux point s to the new 
kernel that is to be configured
- reboot
- enable /etc/init.d/xdm
- start xdm



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