[PLUG] interesting (painful) mystery
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Mon Oct 22 16:53:56 UTC 2007
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Kurt Sussman wrote:
> I have a Dell C640, and it has run Linux all its life. It is currently
> running Kubuntu 7.04 (partly because the upgrade to 7.10 fails).
>
> For the last week, if I shut it down and restart it, I can't log in.
> The 't' and 'y' keys don't work, the tab key doesn't work, and I can't
> get uppercase to save my life (this is the one that prevents me from
> logging in). All other keys seem to work fine.
>
> If I boot a rescue disk and mount the root partition (this can be tricky
> when the 't' is unavailable) and reboot, the keys are back to normal.
> Originally I chrooted that partition and reset the passwords for my
> account and root, but that turns out to be unnecessary; all it needs is
> to be mounted.
>
> I tried 'ls -lt /etc' and nothing stands out. Any suggestions?
If you can get into a working X session, see what keyboard layout you have
defined. It may have gotten set to some weird non-standard layout. I am
not certain where the default keyboard layout is kept. It has been a long
time since I have had to change it by hand. (Not in this century, at
least...
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