HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

[Petter Adsen]

On Sat, 6 Jun 2015 08:17:21 +0100
Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 June 2015 at 04:49, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm running Xubuntu, and have done for quite a while.  Right now it's at
> > 14.04.   I just hosed it somehow, and when I reboot I cannot log in because
> > the keyboard and mouse are being ignored.
> >
> > It's not the hardware, because the grub menu works with the keyboard, and
> > going to a recovery version of the kernel also works but it's console mode,
> > not X.  But when I try a normal boot, the cursor stays in the middle of the
> > desktop and the keyboard cannot enter my password.  I have to do a hard
> > reset because 3-finger salute is also ignored.
> 
> Does Ctrl-Alt-F1 take you to a console?
> 
> Have you tried booting into a different user or a guest session?
> 
> If you boot into the console and then look at /var/log/syslog for the
> failed boot do you see anything that looks relevant?

Also, since you say this only affects X, can you take a look
at /var/log/Xorg.0.log?  Are there any *.conf files in /etc/X11?

Petter

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