HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com
Sat Jun 6 14:49:59 UTC 2015


I'm probably going to do a fresh install.  With all the other stuff I get
manually, there goes my Saturday.

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Answering several suggestions:
>
> Ctl-Alt-F1 does nothing -- keyboard not working, after all
> Keyboard and mouse are USB.  Mobo has no PS/2
> Keyboard and mouse are unchanged, but I have tried spares.
> I have tried a previous kernel.  No help.
> I don't know how to boot into another user or session -- and unless it's
> something grub can do, I'm probably unable because of having no keyboard
> once the kernel starts
>
> System is on a LAN, but unavailable.  It normally serves apache, but
> that's not working either, which has me worried.  I would have thought the
> server would be up whether I logged in or not.
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 5:32 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> At Sat, 6 Jun 2015 08:17:21 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not
>> for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > On 6 June 2015 at 04:49, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > I'm running Xubuntu, and have done for quite a while.  Right now it's
>> at
>> > > 14.04.   I just hosed it somehow, and when I reboot I cannot log in
>> because
>> > > the keyboard and mouse are being ignored.
>> > >
>> > > It's not the hardware, because the grub menu works with the keyboard,
>> and
>> > > going to a recovery version of the kernel also works but it's console
>> mode,
>> > > not X.  But when I try a normal boot, the cursor stays in the middle
>> of the
>> > > desktop and the keyboard cannot enter my password.  I have to do a
>> hard
>> > > reset because 3-finger salute is also ignored.
>> >
>> > Does Ctrl-Alt-F1 take you to a console?
>> >
>> > Have you tried booting into a different user or a guest session?
>> >
>> > If you boot into the console and then look at /var/log/syslog for the
>> > failed boot do you see anything that looks relevant?
>>
>> Some other thoughts for the OP:
>>
>> Are the keyboard / mouse PS/2 based or USB?
>>
>> Did you recently change the keyboard or mouse?
>>
>> Is the system on a LAN? Do you have another machine available that you can
>> remotely connect to it with?
>>
>> >
>> > Colin
>> >
>>
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