I've determined that this issue is not related to gdm at all, because it kept happening when I tried: As root: /etc/init.d/gdm stop As user: startx
I also verified that the keyboard does work in gnome for my regular user after deleting/renaming the following directories: .gconf, .gconfd, .gnome, .gnome2, .gnome2_private . It's obviously not a good solution though, because all my gnome settings have defaulted. -- keyboard not working after logging in via gdm https://launchpad.net/bugs/59616 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs