> Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my > KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or > anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer > booted okay and gave me my login screen, but neither the keyboard nor > the mouse work.
Wild guess: xorg-server was upgraded to a newer version with changed ABI, so you have to remerge everthing installed under x11-drivers # emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/)