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You could try to reinstall xorg-server: # pacman -S xorg-server

How am I going to do this? In normal boot, I can't use my keyboard and, when booting from a LiveCD, I can't install anything on the system.

Boot from the LiveCD and chroot to your system

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You could try to reinstall xorg-server: # pacman -S xorg-server

How am I going to do this? In normal boot, I can't use my keyboard and, when booting from a LiveCD, I can't install anything on the system. No you don't boot into LiveCD like someone said before thingking at all,

pe, 2012-06-22 kello 06:05 -0400, m a kirjoitti: this is Arch after all, we all have working text console and are not dependan't on X to be able to work. Just boot into text mode by adding 3 at the end of the kernel boot line, if you used the inittab method, but if you have used the DAEMONS=(.... gdm/kdm/xdm/... ....) method you 1st need to boot into single user mode by adding 's' instead of 3. Then in the single user mode remount the / filesystem rw and edit rc.conf to not start the loginmanager. Then you change into init mode 3 and there just login like regularry and install xorg-server package 'pacman -S xorg-server'

nelsonmarambio@gmx.de [2012.06.22 1217 +0200]:

Hm ... but is this not just a second possibility ?

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Datum: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:13:38 +0300 Von: Jesse Juhani Jaara An: General Discussion about Arch Linux Betreff: Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers‏

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You could try to reinstall xorg-server: # pacman -S xorg-server

How am I going to do this? In normal boot, I can't use my keyboard and, when booting from a LiveCD, I can't install anything on the system. No you don't boot into LiveCD like someone said before thingking at all,

pe, 2012-06-22 kello 06:05 -0400, m a kirjoitti: this is Arch after all, we all have working text console and are not dependan't on X to be able to work. Just boot into text mode by adding 3 at the end of the kernel boot line, if you used the inittab method, but if you have used the DAEMONS=(.... gdm/kdm/xdm/... ....) method you 1st need to boot into single user mode by adding 's' instead of 3. Then in the single user mode remount the / filesystem rw and edit rc.conf to not start the loginmanager. Then you change into init mode 3 and there just login like regularry and install xorg-server package 'pacman -S xorg-server'

I would think that it's rather the other way around. Why would I have to go to the trouble of putting in a CD, boot, chroot, ... if I can simply boot the system itself and take advantage of its built-in recovery mechanisms (like text consoles, single-user mode, etc.) I think the measures you have to take to fix your system depend on how messed up it is. If you can get a text console from a normal boot (e.g., if only the X server is messed up as in this case), fix things there. If you can't but you can boot into single-user mode, do that. If your system is messed up enough that it doesn't even boot any more, then a LiveCD may be called for. Cheers, Norbert