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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 24 June 2009 02:39:33 John P. Burkett wrote: |
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>> At that point I had the impression that the machine was not up-to-date |
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>> but nonetheless functional. However, the next morning I noticed that |
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>> the computer would not print to my local printer. Using the CUPS menu |
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>> did not rectify the problem. When I rebooted, the machine wouldn't |
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>> start X and the mouse wouldn't work. Rebooting again, I used the Grub |
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>> menu to select an old reliable configuration which allowed me to login |
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>> at a command line interface but did allow me to start X. |
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> |
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> This has been dealt with ad-nauseam on this list over the last few weeks, with |
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> many many threads covering these issues (they are very common) |
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> Please check the mail archives for the full story in all it's excruciating |
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> detail. |
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> |
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Thank you, Alan, for the pointer. Going to |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ and using Firefox's "find" |
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facility, I searched for each of the following expressions: udev, |
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cryptsetup, host address, distrfiles.shea, filesize, printer, startx, |
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mouse. I have not found the threads to which you refer. If you could |
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point out a relevant starting point in the archives, I would be very |
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grateful. |
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John |
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John P. Burkett |
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Department of Economics |
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University of Rhode Island |
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