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

[Steve Phariss]

Did you try a diffrent keyboard?  They are pretty resiliant, but maybe the
cord got crushed or crimped at some point...

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

>  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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