Comment 25 for bug 254840

I can also confirm this bug. As I was able to use ctrl+alt+f1 to switch to a TTY, I could verify that the xorg server was not accessing any of the /dev/input/event* devices; however after issuing a "/etc/input/kdm restart" they were being accessed (and the keyboard & mouse worked OK), so the problem looks like some race condition at system startup.