The latest update disabled my keyboard

[Bo Berglund]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:31:15 +0200, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Sept 2022 at 18:23, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> consider to boot Xubuntu or what ever is on your Ventoy device. IOW boot
>> a live Linux. If not already installed and assuming it's an Ubuntu
>> flavour, then install the package systemd-container.
>>
>> $ sudo -i
>> # apt update && apt install systemd-container
>>
>> Mount the broken Ubuntu install and install the probably missing package
>> or packages by using systemd-nspawn.
>
>That is a good idea!
>
>I just did it with the on-screen keyboard. Slow, but once I got used
>to using it, I got much faster. :-)
>
>That evening, when my Internet connection came back online, I
>reinstalled the xserver-xorg-input-all package, which pulled in a few
>others. Rebooted and all was well again. :-)
>

Interesting! I did not know about this method at all!

So can it be used to repair a broken system by mounting its file system like
this and running apt against it?

If so there should be a general purpose wiki how-to created somewhere.


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden