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Hi, |
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I am running an ~x86 system and yesterday I did an emerge world, all went well |
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until the next time I booted. kdm ran but the screen just had a flashing |
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loggin box. I could not even get another terminal using alt F1-F7. So I am |
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faced with not being able to loggin at all. This raises a few questions |
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about my own inadequacies :- |
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1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state? What |
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tools do I need? |
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2. I have an rsynced backup on an external usb harddrive, but unless I can |
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loggin how can I restore the files from the backup? |
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3. It appears that a freetype update was the cause of this failure, but this |
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information was hard to find on the forum's (I was lucky). I had an old |
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installation cd and chroot'ed and emerged the previous version of freetype, |
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rebooted and all is well (I hope). |
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4. How can an update like this get into ~x86 tree when it plainly causes a |
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major problem? I wonder if I should revert to just x86. |
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Paul |
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