Singe User (is from the kernel) you select the boot option via grub People refer to this as "Maintenance Mode" although to be frank every gentoo system is always in maintenence mode (kinda like perpetual beta)
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html It's the same idea just a diffrent distro; Once you are in single user mode verify all mounted partitions: #mount Then navigate to your xorg.conf; (under /etc/) and edit it to fix your issues or Navigate to your home directory /home/~username# and change the way you login by editing the approriate files (depending on your x display manager) Or conversly, if you are using a live cd: 1. mount your partitions a 2. ch root into your Gentoo install (you are now in single user mode) 3. Make the appropriate edits as always your milage may vary; HTH On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Colleen Beamer <colleen.bea...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
