On Monday 03 May 2010 15:47:41 Colleen Beamer wrote: > On 5/3/10, Indexer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> Hi, > >> Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, > >> but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I > >> am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my > >> mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the > >> xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver. > >> > >> I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the > >> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured. > >> > >> Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get > >> into the system to write this. > >> > >> Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? > > > > I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set > > evdev in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set to > > start on boot as xorg now needs it for keyboard and mouse. > > This would be good if I could get to a terminal seesion, but I can't. > The keyboard doesn't work and I can't login. > > Right now, I am using a Kubuntu live CD and mounting is disabled.
You said you did a system upgrade. Did this involve a kernel upgrade too? If so, you are likely running into missing nvidia drivers in your new /lib/modules/. So: - reboot to single user maintenance mode. - disable /etc/init.d/xdm - remerge nvidia-drivers, making sure that /usr/src/linux point s to the new kernel that is to be configured - reboot - enable /etc/init.d/xdm - start xdm -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
