[Nottingham] Broken Kubuntu during feisty to gutsy upgrade

[daveluff]

Martin wrote:

>daveluff wrote:
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>>since it selects the OS in the grub screen OK, but somewhere during the
>>text output during the Linux boot, the num-lock light goes out, and
>>that's it - it's pretty hard to find out what's happened without the
>>keyboard - I can't even log in to read the logs!
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>Corrupt or incomplete /etc/X11/xorg.conf?
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>Boot into single user or boot with no graphics and try from the root
>commandline:
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>Xorg -configure
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I don't think it's an X problem - I get no keyboard even in single user 
mode.  I think it's something pretty early in the startup sequence, 
before X is started.

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>Have you initialised for the wrong type of keyboard?
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Well, it was working before.  It's a fairly standard keyboard - an MS 
natural PS2 one, but before all the multimedia cr%p got added, so 
effectively it's a bog standard PS2 keyboard.

The only possible clue I have, is that previously I'd get the same 
symptoms in Feisty if I tried booting without the router and modem 
switched on.  I wish I'd investigated further then now!

I'll have a google...

>Good luck!
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Thanks!

Cheers - Dave