Oh man, this is going to be so fun.
I'm on an Aspire 8930G (8.10 amd-64). Rebooted yesterday morning, then
found the same problem described here -- my keyboard and touchpad
stopped working on both the gdm and kdm login screen. (Doubly annoying
since apparently the monitor just turns itself off and
Aha! It was udev-144 the culprit (not from the official repositories
though). Managed to download the 126 package in intrepid-updates, booted
in recovery mode to install it, and now everything works fine again. I'm
gonna steer clear of 144 for the time being, or at least until Jaunty
comes out.
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I am confused about this bug. All comments speak about freshly-created
ext4 filesystems, as well as the Karmic Release Notes. But what about
already-present filesystems? Right now my / is ext3 and /home is ext4 on
Jaunty. If I do a dist-upgrade to Karmic, will I be affected? What about
converting /