On 2012-09-19 22:04, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
I'm running Xfce on Fedora 17. Every so often (daily?) I loose the keyboard. Mouse works fine. I've been trying to discover what process is running before loss but not after. The only processes that I've been able to identify are kworkers.
Are there any suggestions as to what the cause might be?
The only processes that I can identify from ps before and after are kworkers, most often (but not exclusively) is [kworker/0:2] Is there any way to identify what the kworkers are assigned to? (The problem has continued over several kernels)
Logout-login cures the problem.
Thanks.
Do you use the gdm desktop manager to log in? Do you perhaps hold the shift key down for longer than 8 seconds? Try holding the shift key for at least 8 seconds and see if that helps getting the keyboard back.
My solution was to switch over to lightdm.