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

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

I plugged another keyboard.
Nuttin... 

In ssh(ed) into and looked at /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Found (what I believe to be) some unrelated errors about a missing /dev/fb0 
(video stuff).  Still looking at that one... 

I haven't boot a life CD cuz I didn't have one available, I will most likely 
grab the 10.10 install today and bite the bullet and install it again. 

Hate when that happens...   :(
THANKS!
ET 

 

Dazed_75 writes: 

> A couple of things to try:
> - If it is a wireless keyboard, try resyncing it (connent button).  I do not
> know if the GUI can exert any influence over that sync-up or not but it is
> easy to try.
> - plug in an ADDITIONAL keyboard such as a USB one to see if a second
> keyboard will work.
> -try booting into single user mode with no GUI to look at those logs.
> - the LiveCD is a good test too, I don't think you have replied to that one
> yet 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Steve Phariss <sphariss at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
>> 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
>>>>> --
>>>>> http://www.taroandti.com/ Exotic Plant Info and More...
>>>>> http://www.organichomesteading.com/ Organic Homesteading
>>>>> http://www.naturalbeefarm.com/ Mike's Bee Farm 
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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