Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 15:47:44 John P. Burkett wrote: >> 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. > > Try looking for threads started by user "Dale" and working from there. He's > not alone in his woes, but he's certainly the most vocal. His threads also > tend to stay on-topic, leading to answers instead of natter. > Alan, thanks for calling Dale's contributions to my attention. Going to http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ and using Firefox's "find" facility, I searched for "Dale" on the first 10 pages sorted by thread and the first 10 pages sorted by date. The later goes back to May 31. So far I have not found a thread started by Dale that deals with problems similar to mine. If you could identify a specific thread, I would appreciate it. -John
-- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195
