Keyboard not responding after suspend

[Tom H]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As there were some issues with my install of 13.10, at the weekend, I
> nuked my main laptop & reinstalled 14.04.1-64.
>
> It's working a treat in almost all ways, but I have one problem.
>
> When I close the lid, on wake, it shows the login screen. (This is
> desired.) But I can't enter my password. The mouse moves, it's awake,
> but both internal and external keyboards are unresponsive.
>
> But if I press Ctrl-Alt-Fn, I can switch vconsoles, log in, do an
> update or just reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del.
>
> It's weird and annoying. I have a workaround, but is this a known issue?

I replied with a workaround to a similar query a while back:

I click on the on the computer icon om the top right corner, click in
the password field, and the keyboard responds...