On 01/03/2013 04:03:57 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > After the problems of the last weekend, starting getting strange > stuff > where the keyboard would freeze if sat on the screensaver login > screen > too long. Problem got worse, and after (finally) getting a good (?) > yum update, and installing the GIMP, inkscape, libreoffice, and some > others, a reboot and no keyboard response at all. Not even switching > to a virtual screen. > > I can ssh in and systemctl isolate multi-user.target and get a > console > and the keyboard works just fine in the console, so it's an X11 > issue. > Found an old thread for F17 where reloading the evdev stuff and > generating a new config (xorg -configure, I think) fixed a problem > with no keyboard/mouse, and I tried reloading xorg-x11-drv-evdev and > runing xorg -configure and got a segfault or something similar and no > new configuration file. (No xorg.conf to start with, FWIW.)
This sounds like the problem being tracked by this thread: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816764 The problem appears to be related to a combination of XFWM and GDM. If that's what you have, depressing the Shift key for 20 seconds should re-enable the keyboard. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
