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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 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 |
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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 to |
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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 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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