First post for a while - only recently resubscribed, so here goes: My main box has been running testing for some time, with the odd thing pulled in from unstable. Before shutting it down for the weekend it had been up for a month without incident. Upon return the gdm logon screen would accept no keyboard input, although the mouse continued to function. I was also unable to switch between virtual consoles. When I killed gdm remotely, the keyboard worked fine on the command line. Also, when I killed gdm, my attempts at typing in the login box had appeared on the previously active console.
Here's what I've tried:
- checked XF86Config-4. This has not been altered for
several months and was working fine.
- attached another keyboard. Same behaviour as before.
- checked that installation of gdm is up to date.
- updated glibc to 2.3.1-10 (was runnning 2.3.1-5,
so thought I'd upgrade given recent problems).
Running gdm 2.2.5.5-2
gnome 1.4
xfree86-server 4.2.1-4
generic ps/2 "windows" keyboard
2.4.18 kernel
Unfortunately I'd failed to get apt-listchanges to mail
me, so I'm not entirely certain what's been installed
in the last month (won't do that again).
Any suggestions much appreciated,
Stephanie
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Stephanie Boyd http://www.ixtab.org.uk/slb
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