Hi, I am running an ~x86 system and yesterday I did an emerge world, all went well until the next time I booted. kdm ran but the screen just had a flashing loggin box. I could not even get another terminal using alt F1-F7. So I am faced with not being able to loggin at all. This raises a few questions about my own inadequacies :- 1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state? What tools do I need? 2. I have an rsynced backup on an external usb harddrive, but unless I can loggin how can I restore the files from the backup? 3. It appears that a freetype update was the cause of this failure, but this information was hard to find on the forum's (I was lucky). I had an old installation cd and chroot'ed and emerged the previous version of freetype, rebooted and all is well (I hope). 4. How can an update like this get into ~x86 tree when it plainly causes a major problem? I wonder if I should revert to just x86.
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