Keyboard and Mouse Non-responsive

[NoOp]

On 05/09/2009 07:28 PM, APseudoUtopia wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 2:33 AM, APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The
>>> cursor on the login screen is blinking (so it's not frozen up). But
>>> the mouse is entirely unresponsive, as is the keyboard.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can fix this?
>>
>> D you have the same situation if you boot into recovery mode?
>>
> 
> I rebooted into the Recovery entry in grub. In the menu that comes up,
> the keyboard works fine. If I drop to a root shell, it also works
> fine. However, if I select the "resume" option, it continues booting
> into gnome and the same problem happens (no response from keyboard and
> mouse).
> 

Try this - in recovery mode:

1. Select xfix - run that
2. Select dpkg - run that
3. Select netroot (use a fixed cable - wireless doesn't work (for me), then:

# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade
# cd /var/log
# tail dpkg.log

and see if you can spot the packages that you just uninstalled - then
reinstall*.

*Others may be able to tell you a better method to determine what you
uninstalled/installed, but hopefully that will work. Alternately, if you
need to see more of the log:

# nano /var/log/dpkg.log

and then scroll through the log (Page Down button - or Ctrl-V & then
Ctrl-x to exit) - it's liable to be quite large, so don't use 'cat
/var/log/dpkg.log' as that will only give you the last bits that fit on
your screen.

When finished:

# exit

4. Select resume.