On 03/05/2010, at 11:17 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: > On 5/3/10, Indexer <inde...@internode.on.net> 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.
How do you mean mounting is disabled? Open a terminal and type sudo mount /dev/sd<blah> ??? From there you can either chroot in, or you can manually stop xdm by removing the file /etc/runlevels/default/xdm (instead of using rc-update) >> >> William >> >
