Hello to all, I seemed to have the same problem as reported by other people here. The keyboard all of a sudden stopped working altogether, while the mouse functioned normally.
A few observations: - Ctrl-Alt-F1 did NOT work - Using the mouse I could go to another gnome session (under a different user). This session dit NOT have ANY problem. - Logging out and in of the affected session did NOT help - restarting the laptop did NOT help - plugging in an USB keyboard did NOT help Unfortunately preventing the gnome-screensaver from starting did also not make any difference. - Kernel version: 2.6.26-2-686 x version: xserver-xorg/lenny uptodate 1:7.3+20 xserver-xorg-core/lenny uptodate 2:1.4.2-10.lenny2 xserver-xorg-input-all/lenny uptodate 1:7.3+20 gnome version: gnome-core/lenny uptodate 1:2.22.2~5 As the problem seemed related to the configuration of a specific user (although I was just using Firefox when my keyboard stopped, not installing or configuring or changing anything) I tried to look at all the processes started on the one hand for the user with the problem, on the other hand for the user that could just use the keyboard. There did not seem to be a big difference. I did disable the gnome weather applet, and after that nearly everything that was automatically started in gnome, but to no avail. For reference I include the list of processes started for both users at the end of this mail. Then I deleted the following user files / directories - to no avail: .gnome .gnome2 .gnome2_private .gnome_private *.log .metacity When the problem remained I deleted the following files / directories. That SOLVED the problem, albeit at the cost of some customization: .dbus .dmrc .eaf_monitor_temp .fontconfig .gconf .gconfd .gim-2.4 .gksu.lock .gq .gq-state .gtkrc-1.2 .local .luma .sok seaside.im (was owned by root) Well, a little bit rough not to try these deletions one by one, especially considering that I do not know what all these are for, but then I had to go on working..... User having problem: portier-laptop-01:~# ps --user openeyedev PID TTY TIME CMD 3862 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2 3864 ? 00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d 3868 ? 00:00:00 gnome-session 3917 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch 3918 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon 3924 ? 00:00:00 seahorse-agent 3927 ? 00:00:00 gnome-settings- 3948 ? 00:00:00 metacity 3949 ? 00:00:00 gnome-panel 3951 ? 00:00:00 nautilus 3958 ? 00:00:00 bonobo-activati 3963 ? 00:00:00 python 3969 ? 00:00:00 gnome-vfs-daemo 3975 ? 00:00:00 kerneloops-appl 3976 ? 00:00:00 nm-applet 3977 ? 00:00:00 gnome-volume-ma 3978 ? 00:00:00 gnome-power-man 3986 ? 00:00:00 python 4004 ? 00:00:00 fast-user-switc 4006 ? 00:00:00 trashapplet 4008 ? 00:00:00 gnome-keyboard- 4010 ? 00:00:00 gweather-applet 4012 ? 00:00:00 mapping-daemon 4032 ? 00:00:00 gnome-terminal 4034 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe 4035 pts/0 00:00:00 bash User NOT having problem: portier-laptop-01:~# ps --user rportier PID TTY TIME CMD 4086 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2 4088 ? 00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d 4089 ? 00:00:00 gnome-session 4138 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch 4139 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon 4145 ? 00:00:00 seahorse-agent 4148 ? 00:00:00 gnome-settings- 4169 ? 00:00:00 metacity 4170 ? 00:00:01 gnome-panel 4173 ? 00:00:00 nautilus 4179 ? 00:00:00 bonobo-activati 4181 ? 00:00:00 gnome-vfs-daemo 4199 ? 00:00:00 python 4203 ? 00:00:00 kerneloops-appl 4205 ? 00:00:00 nm-applet 4206 ? 00:00:00 gnome-power-man 4207 ? 00:00:00 gnome-volume-ma 4211 ? 00:00:00 python 4221 ? 00:00:00 mapping-daemon 4229 ? 00:00:00 trashapplet 4233 ? 00:00:00 gnome-keyboard- 4234 ? 00:00:00 fast-user-switc 4246 ? 00:00:00 gnome-terminal 4249 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe 4250 pts/1 00:00:00 bash 4317 ? 00:00:30 lnotes 4318 ? 00:00:00 nsdexec 4323 ? 00:00:00 sametime_idlemo 4331 ? 00:00:16 notes2 4422 ? 00:00:02 taskldr 4478 ? 00:00:00 firefox 4490 ? 00:00:00 run-mozilla.sh 4496 ? 00:00:23 firefox-bin 4630 ? 00:00:00 evolution-data- 4660 ? 00:00:00 evolution-alarm Kind regards, Ronald
