Upgraded dbus on Hardy and lost keyboard

[Randall J. Parr]

This morning I updated a SuperMicro H8DCE system with Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.

Preparing to replace libdbus-1-3 1.1.20-1ubuntu3.2 (using
.../libdbus-1-3_1.1.20-1ubuntu3.3_i386.deb)
Unpacking replacement libdbus-1-3 ...
Preparing to replace dbus 1.1.20-1ubuntu3.2 (using
.../dbus_1.1.20-1ubuntu3.3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dbus ...
Preparing to replace dbus-x11 1.1.20-1ubuntu3.2 (using
.../dbus-x11_1.1.20-1ubuntu3.3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dbus-x11 ...

After the update I rebooted and, once Ubuntu is booted, I have no
keyboard in X or in the console login.

The keyboard works fine in the BIOS and in grub but once Ubuntu boots
the keyboard is not detected.

Logging in from another system via ssh and reviewing the logs I find
that before the update the PS2 mouse/keyboard controller was detected
and the keyboard initialized (input: AT.....)

=====================
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.459517] PNP: PS/2 Controller
[PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f12:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.461784] serio: i8042 KBD port at
0x60,0x64 irq 1
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.461835] serio: i8042 AUX port at
0x60,0x64 irq 12
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.501028] mice: PS/2 mouse device common
for all mice
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.501196] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.501251] Cannot allocate resource for
EISA slot 3
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.501297] Cannot allocate resource for
EISA slot 4
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.501351] Cannot allocate resource for
EISA slot 8
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.501396] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.501442] cpuidle: using governor ladder
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.501488] cpuidle: using governor menu
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.501626] NET: Registered protocol family 1
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.501695] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.501779] registered taskstats version 1
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.502003]   Magic number: 1:713:750
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.502050]   hash matches device ttyS1
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.502194] BIOS EDD facility v0.16
2004-Jun-25, 6 devices found
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.502802] Freeing unused kernel memory:
384k freed
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.502894] Write protecting the kernel
read-only data: 828k
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.548380] input: AT Translated Set 2
keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
Jul 12 13:43:00 n3 kernel: [   71.728455] fuse init (API version 7.9)


BUT after updating dbus the PS2 controller is still found BUT the
keyboard is NOT initialized (input: AT... is missing)
==================

Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.899750] PNP: PS/2 Controller
[PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f12:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.902006] serio: i8042 KBD port at
0x60,0x64 irq 1
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.902057] serio: i8042 AUX port at
0x60,0x64 irq 12
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.940878] mice: PS/2 mouse device common
for all mice
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.941046] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.941101] Cannot allocate resource for
EISA slot 3
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.941147] Cannot allocate resource for
EISA slot 4
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.941201] Cannot allocate resource for
EISA slot 8
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.941246] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.941292] cpuidle: using governor ladder
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.941338] cpuidle: using governor menu
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.941476] NET: Registered protocol family 1
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.941544] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.941628] registered taskstats version 1
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.941850]   Magic number: 1:789:392
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.941996] BIOS EDD facility v0.16
2004-Jun-25, 6 devices found
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.942607] Freeing unused kernel memory:
384k freed
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   48.942699] Write protecting the kernel
read-only data: 828k
Jul 14 11:21:42 n3 kernel: [   49.168598] fuse init (API version 7.9)

I tried downgrade to previous version
libdbus-1-3 1.1.20-1ubuntu3.2
dbus 1.1.20-1ubuntu3.2
dbus-x11 1.1.20-1ubuntu3.2
but they are not available.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem and/or where I might find the
previous version?


Thanks
R.Parr, RHCE
Temporal Arts