Keyboard Stops Responding

[Paul Kaplan]

On Tuesday 06 February 2007 8:07:37 pm Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> This has happened twice so far.  My keyboard has completely stopped
> responding, with no warning.  I've been able to recover both times by
> restarting KDE.  The first time I restarted the whole computer.
>
> Just now, I managed to get xev started (not so easy without typing) and
> even it didn't detect any of my keystrokes.  Yet, this time I only
> logging out and was able to log in (by typing) right away.
>
> Can anyone speculate what might cause this?  It doesn't seem hardware
> related, but more likely low-level software.  I am using a Dell Inspiron
> E1505 with the built-in keyboard on Kubunty Edgy.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt Flaschen

I had this happen a few times and I'm pretty sure it was caused by using an 
outdate ~/.kde directory, especially when going from 3.5.4 to 3.5.5.  The 
problem was solved when I renamed the directory and let kde rebuild it at 
login.  I then copied only my bookmarks.xml file and mail folders to the 
newly created ~/.kde directory and the problem didn't recur.  I haven't had 
it happen since upgrading from 3.5.5 to 3.5.6 on edgy.

I would be curious to know if you could determine what file is getting 
corrupted.

Paul