[ubuntu-us-mn] Weird keyboard input failure

[Glancy, Tom (MNIT)]

Found this post interesting:
... for those who are having major issues such keyboard is not responding or responding too slow. Go to All Settings>Universal Access and look for Slow Keys. There should be a on/off selection option for that; turn it off and your keyboard should respond like it should.
[ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2227109&page=2 ]

Otherwise, you might try these to get control of your home directory:

<ctl><alt><f1> at the Ubuntu desktop login screen should switch you to a terminal window. You may be able to login as yourself, and do some poking around.

You should also be able to get grub to display its menu by holding the shift key during boot. That could get you to recovery mode.

Or, after booting from your live cd or usb stick, you can add your guest user to the sudo group. The default /etc/sudoers file allows members of group sudo to execute any command. This avoids changing sudoers file itself.

Good luck,
Tom

TOM GLANCY  |  IT PROGRAM MANAGER, ECOLOGICAL AND WATER RESOURCES DIVISIONf
MN.IT Services @ DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
651-259-5097 (w)  |  Tom.Glancy at state.mn.us
    Information Technology for Minnesota Government | mn.gov/mnit

________________________________________
From: ubuntu-us-mn-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-us-mn-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] on behalf of Fred H Olson [fholson at cohousing.org]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 11:59 PM
To: Ubuntu Minnesota Local Community Team
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-mn] Weird keyboard input failure

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

--
Fred H. Olson  Minneapolis,MN 55411  USA        (near north Mpls)
     Email:        fholson at cohousing.org      612-588-9532
My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org         My org:
Communications for Justice -- Free, superior listserv's w/o ads


--
ubuntu-us-mn mailing list
ubuntu-us-mn at lists.ubuntu.com
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-mn