recent upgrade to 8.10, cannot log in, mouse and keyboard don't respond

[Wolf Halton]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

Seems similar to the Dell Laptop-related bug Bug #285323:, but this is a whitebox and not a Dell. I had to leave during the update-manager-controlled version upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10.
As in Bug #285323, the keyboard works fine in run level 3 [ctrl]+[alt]+[f1]
An aptitude dist-upgrade removed a few packages that appeared to be connected with the previous upgrade, but the problem persisted.
I started up in recovery mode and "fix xorg" had no apparent effect in the problem.
I don't know how to fix a rogue gnome-power-manager or roll back to 8.04. If those are the only fixes, I may need additional help.

When I killed xorg in tty1, the system immediately launched the GUI in tty9!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Wolf Halton (saphil)]

This is an odd problem caused by the HAL loading late. I wrote up my solution on http://wolfhalton.info/2009/02/23/mysterious-ubuntu-810-log-in-problem-solved/

[Wolf Halton (saphil)]

Just to say the fix was found.

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thanks for the detective work, Wolf. Have you tried this in Karmic yet? If it exists in the development release we can try to get it fixed in future version of Ubuntu.