What in the World happened to the %#$&! keyboard? (Ubuntu 10.10)

[Brian Cluff]

  You could get a list of every file that doesn't come from a package 
(using a combination find and dpkg -S) and take a good look at what is 
left over.  I have seen the little bit of junk that gets left over on an 
upgrade cause some serious problems.  The most recent was on a couple of 
machines that had been upgraded repeatedly having an old version of 
flash 7 stranded on the machine that got loaded first, so a lot of flash 
stopped working.   Deleting the older flash fixed the problem.

You might be able to just run computer-janitor on the system and have 
that clean up the problem, but I'm guessing the easiest fix would be to 
backup the home directory and pull a list of packages from the system, 
then do a fresh install and feed the old list of packages back into the 
system.

Did you upgrade via apt or with upgrade-manager, if the former, then 
computer janitor will probably help a lot.

Brian Cluff

On 10/22/2010 11:13 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote:
>> Did the keyboard work for a bit then suddenly stop working?
> I installed Ubuntu 10.10 some week ago (he's been running Ubuntu since 
> 6.04)
> Everything worked as advertised.
> Then I don't what happened, his recollection is far from clever (he is 
> 96).
> All I know is that now the GUI ignores the keyboard.
> As usual, I was just handed out the mess.
> ET
> PS: And yes, the hardware is OK...   :)
>
>
> mike at mjv.com writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Oops - I take that back - you were able to get into the command 
>> prompt and
>> actually type stuff... Doh.
>> Did the keyboard work for a bit then
>> suddenly stop working? Be well,
>> Mike in Zone 8, Texas
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>> On Fri,
>> October 22, 2010 11:04 am, mike at mjv.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> May not be the keyboard - but the plug on the computer. Is it PS2
>> or USB?
>>>  If one, try a keyboard for the other and see if it
>> works. ie - if it's
>>> PS2, give a USB keyboard a try.
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