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 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@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@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@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. >>>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >