Bill-

I don't know what is causing this, but considering that you fixed it by 
replacing the home dirs indicates to me that it is neither a hardware or 
a system configuration issue, but a user-specific configuration issue.  
There are two ways that keyboard layouts can be modified by users (that 
I know of): through .Xmodmap and through the desktop settings (KDE).  I 
would suggest looking into those to see if they are the culprit.  I 
would suspect that KDE could have strange keyboard settings in kcontrol 
that is causing the problem, since .Xmodmap is not used that much these 
days.

-Todd

Bill Dosser wrote:
> We have been running several DisklessWorkStations (LTSP Term 150) for 
> months now with no problems, until the past week or so.
> The server is running CentOS 4 with  LTSP 4.2.  For no apparent reason 
> we had two workstations last week loose keyboard
> function after login. Just like you unplugged the keyboard. I was able 
> to get them  working by deleting their Home Dir and
> putting a default copy back.  Then today another WorkStation did the 
> same thing. I am not a Linux expert by any means, any help
> is welcomed.
> Here is some info if it helps.  We run KDE and use KDE Kiosk Admin 
> Tool to lock down the clients. All of our current thin clients
> use PXE boot.  For some reason the last shipment of 
> DiskLessWorkStations we received are Etherboot.  We have not put any
> of the new Etherboot stations in service, but I did add them to 
> dhcpd.conf and host file to test them. They worked fine.  This is the 
> only thing
> I know of that has changed in months on the server.  
> I searched the archives a bit and found one other person with similar 
> problems, but did not see any answers to it.
>  
> Thanks,  Bill
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