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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