Closure: fedup 20 -> 21 -> No Mouse or Keyboard - users - Fedora mailing-lists

2 Aug 2015


      Review my post from previous week or so for background
First Laptop:
Having failed to upgrade Fedora 22 using fedup on my KDE-base
Fedora 20, I reinstalled Fedora 20.
I downloaded the Workstation Live dvd twice, each time it passed
the 256sha and both time the burned dvd passed the media test ...
but both time after a prolonged time, the "sad-face" information
widget appeared announcing that the Workstation code not be loaded;
also no mouse or keyboard so I could not interact with the widget.
So, I tried downloading KDE Live .... and I came up with
mouse and keyboard.... something is right about the KDE Live
iso or wrong about the Workstation Live iso.
Then, one more time I executed (going straight to 22 from 20):
...
fedup --network 22 --product=nonproduct
After download, reboot, install, etc. I found my self
with the graphics mode login screen with both mouse and
keyboard. I logged in putting me in KDE with, again, mouse
and keyboard.
I did no more experimentation as to why my previous fedup
upgrade had disabled my mouse and keyboard.
Second Laptop:
So, I then took another Fedora 20 laptop (a rather more
recent machine) and executed:
...
fedup --network 22 --product=nonproduct
After the upgrade (download, reboot, install, etc.)
I was in multi-user mode and I logged in. Then I execute
...
xinit
with my .xinitrc containing:
/usr/bin/startkde
KDE started but I had no mouse or keyboard!!!
So, I changed to graphics mode and rebooted ... yes,
I have mouse and keyboard.
Changed back to multi-user mode ... no mouse or keyboard.
Changed back to graphics mode ... mouse or keyboard.
First Laptop:
Changed to multi-user mode ... no mouse or keyboard.
Changed back to graphics mode ... mouse or keyboard.
So, at least for me and two different KDE laptops,
"xinit" calling "/usr/bin/startkde" leaves me with
neither mouse or keyboard.
Just finished upgrading my KDE media server (xbmc -> kodi) with
...
fedup --network 22 --product=nonproduct
and all when well (in graphics mode).
Thats it. No answers.
I would like to be able to boot into multi-user mode and
then start X/KDE but maybe thats no longer possible
with Fedora 22.
Thanks
Richard