Thanks for the link - I already have that preferenceset, but it always
defaults to 'off' when I login. In fact, I can turn it on and later it
will be off again. Isuspect it's when I lock the keyboard, but I've
checked specifically. An interesting point is that sometimes when I hit
NumLock to turn it on, it have to hit it twice before the LED comes on.
That may be only the first time after unlocking... once again not sure,
but that leads me to think itthinks it's on, but it isn't. Or may be the
LED somehow isn't getting triggered, but I suspect that's unlikely given
it's hardware.
At any rate, a minor nit.
*Len Philpot*
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On 12/01/2016 05:38 AM, KC1DI wrote:
this page may be of help to you:
Ubuntu wiki <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NumLock>
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:32 AM, flocculant <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
First - could you not get to recovery rather than ssh?
Anyway - I have
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/90-numlock.conf
[Seat:*]
greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/numlockx on
Obviously have numlockx installed. I've found that numlock at the
keyboard settings makes no difference at all to login screen.
On 01/12/16 03:50, Len Philpot wrote:
...and after nearly 20 years in IT (most of that on *nix) I
should have known better, but... :-)
Lesson: Be careful what you put in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. It
can prevent login.
Backstory: I applied updates as prompted tonight and after
rebooting, it (16.04.1 LTS) came up to the teal boot splash with
the rotating circle and did... nothing. No login prompt and no
combination of Ctrl+Alt+Fx would give me a console prompt.
But I was able to SSH in from my laptop! There were lots of
messages in /var/log/syslog about lightdm failing to start (tell
me something I don't know!) and 'systemctl status
lightdm.service' confirmed it was down. There were also a couple
of messages about not being able to load
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf due to an entry not being in a group
(or something like that - Not on the box now to check).
Anyway, when I took a look at lightdm.conf, there was a
"numlockx" line (the only one) I had forgotten about putting
there a few days ago... from unverified online advice. :-/ I
was trying to get number lock to turn on automatically, but
obviously that's not the way to do it! :-) I deleted (the
otherwise empty) lightdm.conf and voila...! It works great again.
Once again, I should have asked the question: What did you change
last? (only this time of myself).
Speaking of number lock: Is there a way to reliably and safely
enable it at login?
Thanks.
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