Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 02:39:33 John P. Burkett wrote: >> At that point I had the impression that the machine was not up-to-date >> but nonetheless functional. However, the next morning I noticed that >> the computer would not print to my local printer. Using the CUPS menu >> did not rectify the problem. When I rebooted, the machine wouldn't >> start X and the mouse wouldn't work. Rebooting again, I used the Grub >> menu to select an old reliable configuration which allowed me to login >> at a command line interface but did allow me to start X. > > This has been dealt with ad-nauseam on this list over the last few weeks, > with > many many threads covering these issues (they are very common) > > Please check the mail archives for the full story in all it's excruciating > detail. > Thank you, Alan, for the pointer. Going to http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ and using Firefox's "find" facility, I searched for each of the following expressions: udev, cryptsetup, host address, distrfiles.shea, filesize, printer, startx, mouse. I have not found the threads to which you refer. If you could point out a relevant starting point in the archives, I would be very grateful.
John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195
