Keyboard and Mouse freezes on startup

[Mario.fts]

Binary package hint: gdm

Sometimes the keyboard and the mouse fails to work on boot for my Dell Vostro 1310. I cannot write even the name or a password. There is no response from keyboard (including no LED changes on pressing "Caps Lock"). This is a clean install.

I am selecting the kernel manually in GRUB, the keyboard works fine, but sometimes after the selection the problem appears.

$apt-cache policy gdm
gdm:
  Instalado: 2.20.10-0ubuntu2
  Candidato: 2.20.10-0ubuntu2
  Tabela de versão:
 *** 2.20.10-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

$ uname -a
Linux NOTE666 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS (rev a1)
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
08:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
08:05.2 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MMC/SD Controller (rev 02)
08:05.3 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MS/xD Controller (rev 01)

Thanks!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.25.1-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is rather an xorg than a gdm one

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

Hi Mario, please select the top most recovery option in GRUB and when you arrive at the recovery menu (text mode with blue background) please select "netroot". From there, run the command "sudo apt-get install ssh".

Then you reboot and you try to start the machine as usually, when the machine hangs connect to it using ssh from another computer and then run this command:
apport-collect 367365

Doing so will provide us with detailed info about your sw/hw config plus also log files (xorg log full dmesg etc) that might show traces from the freeze etc.

Also inspect /var/log/gdm/* and see if there is any interesting errors in there. Thanks.

[Mario.fts (mario-fts)]

Hi.

I ran the apport-collect as indicated, I am also attaching the logs for /var/log/gdm/.

If there is any problem, please inform.

Thanks! (Sorry for my bad english! ;-))