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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 reinstall? |
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>> I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set evdev |
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>> in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set to start on |
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>> 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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>> William |
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Try this: |
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Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual |
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full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B |
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Reboot |
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Even |
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If |
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System |
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Utterly |
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Broken |
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When I had this issue, I would get a console when I got to the E or I. This is what each keystroke does tho: |
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e sends TERM to all processes (except init) |
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i kills all processes (except init) |
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s syncs partitions |
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u remounts everything ro |
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b boots a box |
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o turns off a box |
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k saks a box - kills all processes on that vt |
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r unraws the keyboard - takes it away from X. |
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I hope that will get you back to a console at least. Then you can start doing the things others have suggested you try. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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