On 2013-09-14, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: >> I can sign on via a terminal session, so it isn't a userid or >> password problem. > > Something similar happened to me many a moon ago, and it was due to the > fact that I had inadvertently turned on "Allow to control the pointer > using the keyboard" in > > System - Preferences - Keyboard - Mouse Keys > > (Gnome)
I should have added that to explore this and other possibilities you'd log on to the terminal, get root, run 'service gdm3 stop', then log out of root and run 'startx' as a regular user, thus entering gnome and bypassing the greeter entirely. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnl38hhn.2ei.cu...@einstein.electron.org
