[PLUG] Computer hell (Solved, I hope)

[Larry Brigman]

A stuck key will act as a key press and drop you into the grub menu.


On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:22 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Today at Oscon I picked up a live DVD of Fedora 20. When I got home I
> booted it on the laptop, and when it came up everything was working,
> including the keyboard. Amazed, I shut it down and booted to my regular
> Xubuntu 13.10 on the disk. It came up normally (not even to the Grub
> menu as before) and I was able to enter my password and log in. So here
> I am all fixed and I haven't even opened the case to clean the
> keyboard, let alone install the new one that is on the way from
> System76.
>
> One small correction to the above: the right shift key is not
> working, nor is the left arrow key. I might discover more as I continue
> to use the computer, but at the moment I am functional again.
>
> I still plan on taking the keyboard out and cleaning it, which will
> probably solve the remaining issues.
>
> I have no explanation for why Xubuntu on the disk was always taking me
> to the Grub menu when it normally never did, and did not do so tonight.
> Nor can I explain the bizarre behavior of the Xubuntu 14.04 live DVD
> that I was using when I couldn't get past the Grub menu to boot my
> normal Xubuntu. But perhaps I should not look a gift horse in the
> mouth.
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