Keyboard locking up in FC17

[Ian Malone]

On 24 September 2013 19:33, Tod Thomas <fr33zone at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've read that fc17 is end of life but maybe someone has run into this.  I'm
> running fc17, latest upgrades, using XFCE, and periodically the keyboard
> just stops working, mouse is fine.  I end up having to mouse over ALL of my
> open windows saving and closing.  Once I logoff and logon everything works
> normally.  I've checked the Xorg log, messages, dmesg, everything I can
> think of but its sill happening.  I even tried turning off the screen saver
> but that didn't help either.  It happens inconsistently which makes it even
> more annoying :)
>
> Not sure there's a single answer given the possible moving parts involved.
> If nobody can think of anything off the top of their head could someone
> suggest a good way to try and debug?  I'll be upgrading here eventually but
> right now the timing is not optimal.
>

Can you change to a virtual console (Ctl-Alt-Fn where n!=1) when this
happens? (And if not can you do it normally?) N.B. Alt-F1 should get
you back to the desktop. Might help in working out whether this is a
problem with X or with XFCE.

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