A couple of things to try:<br>- 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.<br>- plug in an ADDITIONAL keyboard such as a USB one to see if a second keyboard will work.<br>
-try booting into single user mode with no GUI to look at those logs.<br>- the LiveCD is a good test too, I don&#39;t think you have replied to that one yet<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Steve Phariss <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sphariss@gmail.com">sphariss@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Did you try a diffrent keyboard?  They are pretty resiliant, but maybe the cord got crushed or crimped at some point...<div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Brian Cluff <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> You could get a list of every file that doesn&#39;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.<br>

<br>You might be able to just run computer-janitor on the system and have that clean up the problem, but I&#39;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.<br>

<br>Did you upgrade via apt or with upgrade-manager, if the former, then computer janitor will probably help a lot.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Brian Cluff</font> 
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<div><br><br>On 10/22/2010 11:13 AM, <a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com" target="_blank">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Did the keyboard work for a bit then suddenly stop working?<br></blockquote>I installed Ubuntu 10.10 some week ago (he&#39;s been running Ubuntu since 6.04)<br>

Everything worked as advertised.<br>Then I don&#39;t what happened, his recollection is far from clever (he is 96).<br>All I know is that now the GUI ignores the keyboard.<br>As usual, I was just handed out the mess.<br>
ET<br>
PS: And yes, the hardware is OK...   :)<br><br><br><a href="mailto:mike@mjv.com" target="_blank">mike@mjv.com</a> writes:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><br><br><br><br>Oops - I take that back - you were able to get into the command prompt and<br>
actually type stuff... Doh.<br>
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<br>On Fri,<br>October 22, 2010 11:04 am, <a href="mailto:mike@mjv.com" target="_blank">mike@mjv.com</a> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><br><br>May not be the keyboard - but the plug on the computer. Is it PS2<br></blockquote>or USB?<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> If one, try a keyboard for the other and see if it<br></blockquote>works. ie - if it&#39;s<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">PS2, give a USB keyboard a try.<br></blockquote></blockquote>---------------------------------------------------<br>

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