Comment 69 for bug 254840

Sorry, I can't help you. What did work for me was simply to unplug and
re-plug the keyboard. It turns out I had two faulty mice, so that's why my
mouse didn't work. Basically, it just started working again by itself.

Good luck.
N.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Damien Freeze <email address hidden>wrote:

> I updated this morning (actually, I rebooted this morning when I woke up
> and the update manager said it had downloaded an important security
> update and needed to be restarted), and now I have no keyboard or mouse.
> I'm on an Acer Aspire 3680 Laptop, 1.66 gHz Intel Celeron M, 2 Gb RAM.
> Currently, I'm forced to run on the live CD to be able to post this, but
> that's not an acceptable option for long term. I've tried several
> different fixes mentioned in the forums, but nothing seems to work.
> I've tried using apt to update/upgrade/dist-upgrade and autoremove, to
> no avail...I've tried the xserver-xorg-input-all tip, and nothing...of
> course, since I'm doing it all through the Live CD, I don't know if any
> of it is actually getting to my hard drive. I'm reaching the end of my
> rope here...thinking about chucking this paperweight out the window and
> going to get an abacus...snail-mail, I'm coming home!
>
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
>
>
> ubuntu@ubuntu:/media/disk$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-all
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> xserver-xorg-input-all is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
>
> ** Attachment added: "xorg.conf"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25802985/xorg.conf
>
> --
> [intrepid] mouse and keyboard stop working under gdm and gnome
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254840
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “xorg” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “xorg-server” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> [intrepid] after today upgrade and dist-upgrade
>
> may be related to upgrade of
>
> xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.99.905-0ubuntu5 to
> xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.4.99.906-1ubuntu1i386.deb
>
> Mouse and keyboard stop working under Gdm and Gnome.
>
> CTRL+ALT+F2 is still working and i can make login, i wait for updates and
> upgrades typing:
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Same issue on 4 of 4 intrepid pc (not same hardware).
>
> Thank you
>