Sporadic keyboard jamming on lightdm; problems with sessions after

[Adam Funk]

On 2014-07-17, Tom H wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
>>
>> A relative has a new laptop with a fresh install of 14.04 on it.
>> Occasionally the lightdm login screen doesn't accept keyboard input,
>> so he can't log in, although the pointer still follows the mouse.  We
>> think it's more likely to happen when he points the mouse at the
>> battery icon, but it can happen without doing that.  We tried using
>> Ctrl-Alt-F1 to log in through a virtual terminal & do
>>
>> sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop
>> sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm start &
>>
>> with the "&" because otherwise the start hangs on to the terminal
>> instead of detaching, as I'd expect.  Then we hit Ctrl-D & Ctrl-Alt-F7
>> to get back to the GUI login.  Logging in seems to work, but trying to
>> do anything with the network manager applet throws up an error dialog
>> like "no session for user 1001" (where 1001, for example, is actually
>> the user logged in through the GUI).
>
> If by "jamming" you mean that you can't type in your password, this

Yes!

> happens to me coming out of sleep almost every time but on 14.10 not
> 14.04. I don't remember it happening to me on 14.04.
>
> I haven't file a bug report because it doesn't happen all the time and
> apport may have filed one for this problem on my behalf for
> indicator-keyboard-service.
>
> My workaround is to click on the top right computer icon and then
> click in the password field - and I can then log in.

We'll try that & I'll let you know.  Thanks.