On 12/25/2011 02:51 PM, CJoeB wrote: > On 12/25/11 14:20, Michael Hampicke wrote: >>> 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/) > > It's a little hard to do that since, I boot to a login screen and > neither my keyboard nor mouse work - despite the fact that the cursor > places itself in the password field on the login screen, I can't enter > my password since the keyboard doesn't work. :-)
If it happens again, in GRUB edit the kernel commandline and append "gentoo=nox" to it and that will prevent Gentoo from starting your graphical login manager. Or, better yet, create a second menu entry in grub for "no X" right now, so it'll be there if you need it in the future.
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