Hi there,
good you at least got working this way.
I just been thinking a few more ideas:
-try to look into your home dir and erase (backup, move ..) there any
mention of gnome (gnome folders etc) and X settings etc
- also erase /tmp for any X related things
- as for yum - you have to check your repository files in
/etc/yum.repos.d and see if they point to right repositories for SL 6.5
and enable = 0 or enable = 1 for disable / enable the repo there
also try:
yum clean dbcache
yum clean all
yum update
and try install again
cheers,
On 09/18/2014 09:09 AM, MAH Maccallum wrote:
Thanks for the sample xorg.conf. I also found an old one of mine in a backup
from March 2013 and used both as guides but this did not seem to resolve the
problem. What makes things really galling is that all works fine from the SL
6.5 LIVE CD. Currently, to get functionality, I have booted from that, mounted
the usual hard drives, and then created my usual username with my real
directory as home. So for now I have a workaround which I am using. But I am
still completely mystified by the absence of the keyboard in Gnome or gdm when
I boot off the hard drive.
I did try to do the groupinstalls you recommended, but hit trouble with them. I
had Desktop, General Purpose Desktop and X Window System installed but attempts
to install the others failed. I did try to report this to the users list but
that did not seem to getthrough so here are the details again.
When trying to install Desktop Platform I got
Error: Package: libxml2-python-2.7.6-12.el6_4.1.i686 (@sl-security)
Requires: libxml2 = 2.7.6-12.el6_4.1
Removing: libxml2-2.7.6-12.el6_4.1.i686 (@sl-security)
libxml2 = 2.7.6-12.el6_4.1
Updated By: libxml2-2.7.6-14.el6_5.1.i686 (sl-security)
libxml2 = 2.7.6-14.el6_5.1
Removing: libxml2-2.7.6-14.el6.i686 (installed)
libxml2 = 2.7.6-14.el6
Updated By: libxml2-2.7.6-14.el6_5.1.i686 (sl-security)
libxml2 = 2.7.6-14.el6_5.1
Available: libxml2-2.7.6-1.el6.i686 (sl)
libxml2 = 2.7.6-1.el6
Available: libxml2-2.7.6-4.el6.i686 (sl-security)
libxml2 = 2.7.6-4.el6
Available: libxml2-2.7.6-4.el6_2.1.i686 (sl-security)
libxml2 = 2.7.6-4.el6_2.1
Available: libxml2-2.7.6-4.el6_2.4.i686 (sl-security)
libxml2 = 2.7.6-4.el6_2.4
Available: libxml2-2.7.6-8.el6_3.3.i686 (sl-security)
libxml2 = 2.7.6-8.el6_3.3
Available: libxml2-2.7.6-8.el6_3.4.i686 (sl-security)
libxml2 = 2.7.6-8.el6_3.4
which looks like some messup over versions between repositories
More worryingly, trying to install KDE I got
error: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 192a7d7d: BAD
Problem opening package htdig-3.2.0-0.10.b6.el6.i686.rpm
which looks like the repo has a package that's not signed correctly although
all the other 70+ rpms in the group
apparently worked OK
Thanks once more for your attention to this problem
Malcolm
________________ ________________________
From: Karel Lang AFD <[email protected]>
Sent: 17 September 2014 13:43
To: MAH Maccallum
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Keyboard not working in Gnome
Hi,
the X server on RHEL 6 can go without xorg.conf while creating needed
parameters for itself 'on the fly' when starts.
But you can still control you X server via custom 'xorg.conf'
e.g. my laptop:
[root@orionis ~]# ls -al /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1748 Jul 30 08:43 /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf
e.g. my xorg.conf :
# Xorg configuration
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
also, you can use 'xinput --list' to list input devices
On 09/17/2014 01:40 PM, MAH Maccallum wrote:
Hmm! I don't appear to have an xorg.conf file anywhere (not even in backups
from before the problems). I do have xorg.conf.d directories but they seem to
be empty both in the current system and in the backups
Yum group list showed I did not have the Desktop Platform or KDE groups. I
tried group install but each failed, the Desktop one with clashes on libxml and
the KDE with a package with wrong signature. I cannot cut and paste the errors
from this iPad so I will forward them separately
Thanks for help, Malcolm
Sent from my iPad
On 16 Sep 2014, at 21:58, "Karel Lang AFD" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
to solve this, id suggest:
1. have a look what is stated in your xorg.conf file - you should have there
something like
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection
2. log in as root at runlevel 3 and 'startx'
then switch back to console via ctrl+alt+f1 and have a look at
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
and look for any error message
switch back to gui via ctrl-alt-f7 to try to type
3. check if you have all X server related packages installed - if you run below command
you should get those groups installed (except kde if you dont use it) ... as a matter of
a fact, you can try to install it and see if you can run keyboard in kde ... ( to install
grp run 'yum groupinstall "name of grp"
yum grouplist
Desktop
Desktop Platform
General Purpose Desktop
KDE Desktop
X Window System
cheers,
On 09/16/2014 04:34 PM, MAH Maccallum wrote:
I recently had a glitch (my own fault) and had to restore/rebuild. I also
upgraded from SL 6.1 to 6,5. After several days struggle I can now boot up
and login using run level 3 but gnome does not seem to accept any keyboard
input, either in the password dialog box if I start at run level 5 or in any
window or dialog box started after a startx from the run level 3 console.
I have found reports of similar problems on the web but none of the solutions
suggested (or the exact symptoms) seem to match my problem. Our system
guru is on vacation and I have a deadline to meet so I desperately want help to
get my
GUI back! My best guess is that some file leftover from the old installation is
interacting badly with the new: but what? All help gratefully received!
