On 5/3/10, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 03 May 2010 15:47:41 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. > > > You said you did a system upgrade. Did this involve a kernel upgrade too? > > If so, you are likely running into missing nvidia drivers in your new > /lib/modules/. So: > > - reboot to single user maintenance mode. > - disable /etc/init.d/xdm > - remerge nvidia-drivers, making sure that /usr/src/linux point s to the new > kernel that is to be configured > - reboot > - enable /etc/init.d/xdm > - start xdm
New kernel was downloaded, but I did not upgrade the kernel. If that was the situation, I wouldn't be able to load to my login screen - I would be booted back to the command line. I get to the login screen, but then, everything is frozen - keyboard and mouse. I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user maintenance mode. How do I do that? Colleen
