On 2012-09-19 22:04, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> I'm running Xfce on Fedora 17. Every so often (daily?) I loose the 
> keyboard. Mouse works fine.  I've been trying to discover what 
> process is running before loss but not after. The only processes that 
> I've been able to identify are kworkers.
> 
> Are there any suggestions as to what the cause might be? 
> 
> The only processes that I can identify from ps before and after are 
> kworkers, most often (but not exclusively) is [kworker/0:2] Is there 
> any way to identify what the kworkers are assigned to? (The problem has 
> continued over several kernels)
> 
> Logout-login cures the problem. 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 

Do you use the gdm desktop manager to log in?  Do you perhaps hold the
shift key down for longer than 8 seconds?
Try holding the shift key for at least 8 seconds and see if that helps
getting the keyboard back.

My solution was to switch over to lightdm.

-- 
Sjoerd Mullender

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