[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu 12.04 upgrade didn't go smoothly

[Mitch Patenaude]

It was lightdm.  Once I installed kfce, I stopped having any problems.
 Installing kfce without a keyboard is left as exercise to the reader. ;-)

  -- Mitch


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Michael Dooley <mdooley at sonic.net> wrote:

> On 04/16/2013 11:06 AM, Mitch Patenaude wrote:
>
>  Even though I had a perfectly functional 10.04LTS ubuntu install (Lucid),
>> I
>> decided to try the upgrade to 12.04LTS just for kicks.  It didn't go well.
>>
>> The biggest problem right now is that X won't accept input from my
>> keyboard
>> most of the time.
>>
>> When I press a key, I get the alert bong.  If i hold it down, it will
>> eventually start repeating that letter.  I've got it partially working by
>> turning off typematic repeating, and now when I hold it down I get a
>> single
>> instance of that letter.  When I am not in X, the keyboard works fine
>> (single user mode, if I manage to get it out of X by sshing in and killing
>> X.
>>
>> Nothing useful in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  Anyplace else I should be looking?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    -- Mitch
>>
>
> Try logging in as Guest and see if the problem persists? If it doesn't,
> examine your .config files.
>
> --
> Michael Dooley
>
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