Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 14:27:02
Message-Id: i2s2db4be991005030726gb8438eecoa43fa16e8befbe66@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade by Philip Webb
1 On 5/3/10, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
2 > 100503 Colleen Beamer wrote:
3 >> I can't disable my xdm login script.
4 >> My computer boots to the login screen
5 >> and the keyboard doesn't work so I can'l login to get a terminal session.
6 >
7 > Yes, it happened to me long ago,
8 > after which I decided always to boot to a raw terminal, then do 'startx'.
9 >
10 > You need to use System Rescue or similar to get into the box,
11 > then change your boot procedure to boot to a raw terminal.
12
13 How do I do that?
14
15 Regards,
16
17 Colleen