Colleen Beamer wrote:
On 5/3/10, Indexer<inde...@internode.on.net> wrote:
On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote:
Hi,
Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen,
but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I
am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my
mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the
xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver.
I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured.
Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get
into the system to write this.
Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall?
I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set evdev
in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set to start on
boot as xorg now needs it for keyboard and mouse.
This would be good if I could get to a terminal seesion, but I can't.
The keyboard doesn't work and I can't login.
Right now, I am using a Kubuntu live CD and mounting is disabled.
William
Try this:
Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual
full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B
Reboot
Even
If
System
Utterly
Broken
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:
e sends TERM to all processes (except init)
i kills all processes (except init)
s syncs partitions
u remounts everything ro
b boots a box
o turns off a box
k saks a box - kills all processes on that vt
r unraws the keyboard - takes it away from X.
I hope that will get you back to a console at least. Then you can start doing
the things others have suggested you try.
Dale
:-) :-)
