Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> writes: > Since you can ssh into the system, could you remove hald from the > default runlevel and reboot? I'm not sure about the keyboard and mouse > after that tho. At least maybe you can get to a console.
As reported in OP, I sshed in and stopped the start of hald.. that allowed boot to continue to login prompt but no mouse and keyboard. So a login shell won't be useful for now. > Did you run etc-update, or whatever config update tool you prefer, after > the updates? You may also want to emerge the old version of hal and try > that. Since you can get in, that may help. Of course, if it was me, > I'd mask that version and skip that one in the future. O_O Maybe the > next version will work better. No I didn't do the update... As reported in OP, I actually wasn't done with the follup chores to an update, and shutdown from a remote due to absentminded pea brainedness. I'm doing that now via ssh. Maybe things will improve...