[ubuntu-us-mn] Weird keyboard input failure

[Fred H Olson]

Thomas suggested:
>On the web page about your keyboard problem, you report that you can't sudo
>from your guest account.
>
>You could boot from a USB stick and edit /etc/sudoers to fix this.

I have not accomplished this yet but am working on it (from
the working Ub 12.04 system where the keyboard works). I need to study the
format of the .sudoers file more before I'll be confidant enough to modify
it (I WILL MAKE A BACK UP COPY FIRST)

>I'd also guess that your keyboard will work fine while booting from a USB
>stick.
I'd expect the same given Ub 12.04 works. (I still have not found the
Ub 14.04 Live DVD - I dont have it on a flash drive)

>You might try looking at the "dot files" for your personal account
>(.profile, .bashrc, et al) to see if there's anything that is suspicious.
>Looking at such files with last changed dates around the time of the start
>of the problem might be useful also.

I looked at them but did not see anything but am not sure I'd recognize
a problem.

I have put copies of these and some other system files online with
links in the weird-kbd.htm file at 9)

Note: The file:
http://fholson.cohousing.org/blog/weird-kbd.htm
has gotten unweildy so I put in some rather arbitrary section
labels 1) thru 9)

New insight:

3 days before I reported the keyboard problem I started getting a
bash_completion error. I dont think the keyboard problem started
immediately. This is belatedly starting to look quite suspect even tho
there a gap in time (I think) before the keyboard problem appeared.

The details in weird-kbd.htm at 8)

Fred

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