On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Geoffrey Leach <geoff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Bingo. Now that I think of it, this started happening after I loaded gdm. And I have a bad habit of dozing off with my finger on the shift key, especially while trying to log in after midnight. However, knowing that's the bug doesn't help. Particularly since the bug is still open. I can't afford to have my laptop this unstable. Squeeze is replacing Fedora on this netbook tonight. I'll have to try to squeeze Fedora into a single spare partition (fitting since Fedora is going monolithic these days) on the big box for further studying. (Tried it once two days ago, but the security spin installed okay and then couldn't find the kernel after the first yum update.) Thanks, guys. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
