Hello all,
I followed the directions sequentially on this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html
to update from 7.2-release to 8.0-release, and now i'm unable to su into root or even login to root directly, it's like the root user is completely inaccessible, but exists because when I ran top there were several processes being run by root. That, and my usb mouse won't respond.
However, my usb keyboard (of the same brand) still works, as does "sudo". I was able to login using only the keyboard, and i'm now using ratpoison since it doesn't require a mouse. I'm able to execute !programs in X like before and all my configs/files are intact. Userland utilities and shells(I use bash) seem alright too. The mouse however is dead in X, and only in X because when alt-f2'ing into another shell, the mouse lives, alt-f9 and it's unresponsive again.
Oh yea, I also ran portsnap update and portupgrade -ai but no improvement there either. I really don't want to reformat & reinstall from scratch if I don't have to. Is there anything else I can try? Thanks in advance.
PS: please be gentle, i'm still new to the bsd world...:r
I followed the directions sequentially on this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html
to update from 7.2-release to 8.0-release, and now i'm unable to su into root or even login to root directly, it's like the root user is completely inaccessible, but exists because when I ran top there were several processes being run by root. That, and my usb mouse won't respond.
However, my usb keyboard (of the same brand) still works, as does "sudo". I was able to login using only the keyboard, and i'm now using ratpoison since it doesn't require a mouse. I'm able to execute !programs in X like before and all my configs/files are intact. Userland utilities and shells(I use bash) seem alright too. The mouse however is dead in X, and only in X because when alt-f2'ing into another shell, the mouse lives, alt-f9 and it's unresponsive again.
Oh yea, I also ran portsnap update and portupgrade -ai but no improvement there either. I really don't want to reformat & reinstall from scratch if I don't have to. Is there anything else I can try? Thanks in advance.PS: please be gentle, i'm still new to the bsd world...:r