no keyboard with 13.1 xfce

[mimosa]

... as of this morning. This is a machine I don't use much, and I did a package update yesterday. The keyboard works before the kernel is loaded, and also in Windows, so it doesn't look like a hardware problem. The only thing I can think of to explain it is the Gslapt upgrade.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Presumably the way to fix this (assuming it's just me) is using Live; I'd be grateful for any pointers.

[Shador]

What were those updates? You can get a chronological list of installations like this:

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ls -lt /var/log/packages

[mimosa]

Thanks Shador. I'll boot live on that machine this afternoon and get back to you. Also, I imagine the log from the boot might contain some useful info - what is that, syslog?

[Shador]

Yes, syslog is fine. Xorg.0.log is another idea.

[thenktor]

Does the mouse work?
Does re-plugging help?
Did you upgrade the kernel package and not the modules?

[gapan]

You're either booting with the wrong kernel (one from another partition maybe?) or you installed a new kernel and you forgot to install the modules.

[mimosa]

@Thenktor & gapan

This isn't that machine The Salix on it is mostly used for maintenance of the Other OS on sda1. I only upgraded the kernel on my main machine to help me understand what another user was doing, and Shador assures me any performance benefit is probably negligible. So this one can keep 2.6

I'll check about the mouse and replugging, as well as the log files, and post with more details. But I rebooted two or three times, and only Salix appears to be affected.

[mimosa]

Both the mouse and the keyboard are affected, and replugging doesn't help. Below is the output giving recent package upgrades; I'm not sure what to look for in the log files. However, /var/log/syslog is much shorter here than in Live, only 55 lines.

I'm also no longer sure this is 13.1 - I think I might have installed 13.37 instead.

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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1848 Mar 28 19:24 wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-i486-2gv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3746 Mar 28 19:24 sourcery-0.7-noarch-1gv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  13092 Mar 28 19:24 salixtools-gtk-1.2.5-noarch-1gv

......

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   5119 Mar 28 19:22 mozilla-firefox-11.0-i686-1gv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    590 Mar 28 17:56 par-1.52-i486-1_SBo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3278 Mar 28 17:35 gmountman-0.3.3-noarch-1gv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1964 Mar 28 17:35 flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-i686-1gv

[thenktor]

You really should check if the kernel can find it's modules. Boot to "init 3" and watch for suspicious messages about modules that cannot be found.

[mimosa]

Here's the end of syslog:

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Mar 29 15:53:56 darkstar udevd[1486]: error binding control socket, seems udevd is already running 
Mar 29 15:53:58 darkstar console-kit-daemon[1603]: WARNING: Failed to acquire org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit 
Mar 29 15:53:58 darkstar console-kit-daemon[1603]: WARNING: Could not acquire name; bailing out 
Mar 29 15:54:01 darkstar console-kit-daemon[1833]: WARNING: Failed to acquire org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit 
Mar 29 15:54:01 darkstar console-kit-daemon[1833]: WARNING: Could not acquire name; bailing out 
Mar 29 15:55:55 darkstar kernel: [  131.198173] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 29 15:55:55 darkstar kernel: [  131.201924] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 29 15:55:55 darkstar kernel: [  131.295194] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through

It seems to contain the record of two boots, but the first one doesn't have the last three lines of the above. Both boots contain a message about failed detection of scsi card (no card) WD 7000

I'll try booting to runlevel 3 and see what my eye can catch, but assuming I still don't get a keyboard, I'll only have the one chance However isn't consolekit something to do with X?

This is puzzling, because I didn't do anything last time I used this Salix, just deleted some unused stuff from the Windows data partition.

EDIT I didn't see *anything*. But the keyboard works in runlevel 3. After starting X, no more keyboard