The latest update disabled my keyboard

[Liam Proven]

Ubuntu Unity, 22.04.1.

The last run of

apt update ; apt full-upgrade -y ; apt autoremove -y ; apt purge ; apt clean

... uninstalled a long list of "redundant" packages including most of
the accessory apps of the Unity desktop: text editor, etc.

Ralf was right. Those `-y` switches did come back and bite me. :-(
Sorry, Ralf, I should have listened.

I did:

apt install ubuntu-unity-desktop

... Which put everything back, and the machine rebooted to the login
screen no problem, but my keyboard doesn't work. Internal or external,
doesn't matter.

I found this:

https://techtips.easycloudsolutions.com/2020/01/18/how-to-fix-keyboard-not-working-after-ubuntu-update/

https://techwiser.com/fix-keyboard-not-working-in-ubuntu-18-04/

Seems it was a thing. I managed to enable the on-screen keyboard and it works.

Slight snag: my home internet is out today, and I can't connect to my
phone hotspot to try reinstalling `xserver-xorg-input-all`.

This is a new one on me and it's caused serious problems!


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