On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@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@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
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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.
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