[Novalug] Creeping Something

[Ed James]

Dan,

    If yer using a USB keyboard, try a different (non-USB) type of
keyboard.  I hit a similar problem with FC4, but not with FC6.
Seems that too many USB devices (mouse, keyboard, flashdrive)
confused something.  This prolly has no bearing on NFS shares,
though.

Ed James

Quoting Dan Arico <dan_arico at aricosystems.com>:

> A few weeks ago I mentioned a problem I was having mounting NFS shares. I
> worked around that one by adding a permission for users to mount it so I
> could do a manual mount after I logged on. I never did figure out what the
> problem was.
>
> Now this morning I ran into another mystery on the same computer. After I
> logged in, I lost the keyboard. The mouse still worked. I tried various
> combinations and found a pattern.
>
> The keyboard works from the login screen (KDE), but does not work after I log
> in, no matter whether it's as a user or root. I figure this can't be a
> hardware problem so I figure I have to have a creeping software problem.
>
> The computer is running OpenSUSE 10.2. It's been successively updated from
> SUSE 9.1 in stages.
>
> Time for a fresh install?
>
> Dan Arico