The latest update disabled my keyboard

[Keith]

On 9/26/22 10:24 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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!
> 
> 

There seems to be something up with the jammy-update pocket. Currently, 
there are 62 packages in jammy-updates that are sitting at 0% 
Phased-Update-Percentage and have been for the last 3-4 days, which is 
unusual. I don't even think a package under a phased update goes in at 
0%. From what I've observed since upgrading to 22.04.1, most start at 
10% which progressively increases over the course of a week. And I don't 
believe any other updates in the jammy-update pocket have appeared since 
about 4 days ago. If they are, they're not being phased in. Also, the 
packages that are stuck at 0% are related to systemd and speech dispatcher.

So I'm assuming there's been some regression(s) found in those packages 
and that's why they're stuck at 0% (originally systemd packages were at 
70% and speech dispatcher packages were at %10 before they were reset to 0%)

Probably best to stick to only security updates (which are not phased) 
in the meantime.

-- 
Keith