After getting logged in there are no issues at all with the keyboard. I only see the problem at the login screen.
1) The keyboard does not appear to react at all to key presses at the Ubuntu login screen. 2) I cannot Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a console when booted to the login screen 3) During a normal boot if I hit keys while it is booting I can see those key presses output to the terminal before it switches to the Ubuntu splash screen 4) booting in recovery mode I can navigate the text 'Recovery Menu' and drop into a root shell and the keyboard works fine. 5) I have not tried uninstalling the vmware guest tools, but I have upgraded the kernel twice, which breaks the vmware tools (i.e. they are not compiled to work with the new kernel yet) and requires you to re-run the tools config program. After installing the new kernel and rebooting the vmware tools are not running. The same keyboard problem is observed. I login and reconfigure the tools for the new kernel and get them up and running, then if I logout or reboot at this point, I see the same keyboard problem when I get back to the login screen. 6) keyboard input seems to work fine before the login screen and after logging in. I just doesn't work at the Ubuntu login screen. >From the link someone posted above and a similar post I found on the vmware site (link below), others are seeing the problem as well. http://communities.vmware.com/message/1503455#236418 (note the original post may not be related, but a few of the later posts look like the same situation I describe) -- keyboard input broken at gnome login prompt after package updates https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/548891 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
