No keyboard with GDM on F14

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Mon Nov 22 16:51:04 UTC 2010


Am 22.11.2010 12:48, schrieb Jean Francois Martinez:
> When I boot F14 and I reach the GDM screeen there is simply no field to
> enter the user ID and no user list, apparently it doesn't detect the
> keyboard.  This happens both with an USB keyboard and with a PS/2 one.
>
> If I force a restart of GDM either through CTRl-ALT-BS or through a
> telinit 3, telinit 5 on a non-graphiacl console then then new GDM works
> as it is supposed to do.
>
> My guess is that Dracut starts GDM before the keyboard and that is why X
> doesn't detect it and GDM doesn't work.
>
> JFM
>
>

dracut does not start gdm. As soon as you are seeing "Welcome to Fedora..." on 
the text console (without rhgb), dracut is finished.

if you tested dracut-006-4.fc14, you might want to test the fixed dracut-006-5 
version.

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-006-5.fc14,udev-161-7.fc14


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