I consider myself an experienced user and had a very hard time figuring out this. I have had this problem many times, and the only solution I figured out until now was to reboot.
The problem is "Slow Keys" are being enabled in GDM even though I'm long ago logged in, and that anti-feature should be controled by Gnome-Shell, not GDM once logged in. By the way: this bug and bug #41427 are very closely related. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/758335 Title: gdm ignores keyboard input because Slow Keys was secretly turned on Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gdm This seems to have recently broken on natty: gdm starts up, but ignores keyboard input, so I cannot log in. lsusb shows that the keyboard is attached. A usb mouse plugged into the keyboard moves the pointer around. Xorg.0.log shows that the keyboard is seen and connected as an input device. I tried with a different keyboard and a different usb port with no success. I ssh'd into the machine and shut down gdm, and the keyboard does then work to log in on a text console, but it again does not work when I restart the machine. I can use the mouse to start the accessible keyboard but clicking on that does not help either. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/758335/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
