Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
Thanks for the response. However, this has opened another can of worms and I'm bowing to the expertise of this list to help On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Colleen Beamer writes:. /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdm_greet: error while loading shared

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Colleen Beamer writes: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: I don't remember why I unmasked the unstable version of libpng. However, following your advice, I first attempted to reinstall kdm. This had been an update 6 days ago when all this started.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-18 Thread CJoeB
On 06/18/10 19:21, Alex Schuster wrote: Colleen Beamer writes: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: The can of worms comes from doing revdep-rebuild. However, the actual revdep-rebuild bombs and I get told that there are no e-builds to

[gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-17 Thread Colleen Beamer
First, I looked in the archives and didn't find anything relevant - could be my stupidity, but I did try! About 6 days ago, I updated my system and since then, I can't boot into X. My nvidia driver loads okay and it looks like it is going to start X, but then reverts to the command line. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
The dri messages are normal for nvidia. Run revdep-rebuild to fix the png issue. On 17 Jun 2010 5:59 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: First, I looked in the archives and didn't find anything relevant - could be my stupidity, but I did try! About 6 days ago, I updated my

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Colleen Beamer writes: First, I looked in the archives and didn't find anything relevant - could be my stupidity, but I did try! Fine :) From my kdm log the last few lines are as follows: (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-17 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 June 2010 17:54:35 Alex Schuster wrote: Colleen Beamer writes: First, I looked in the archives and didn't find anything relevant - could be my stupidity, but I did try! Fine :) From my kdm log the last few lines are as follows: (EE) Failed to load module dri (module