No keyboard with GDM on F14

Carroll Grigsby cgrigs986 at att.net
Tue Nov 23 03:42:02 UTC 2010


On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:48:28 +0100
Jean Francois Martinez <jfm512 at free.fr> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 

Jean:
I don't think that dracut is the problem. I have two separate Fedora
installations. The first runs Fedora 14 64 bit and has not had any
problems booting. The second, running Fusion 14 RC 32 bit, exhibits the
identical behavior you have described. Both use the same version
of dracut: 006.3..fc14.

Thanks for the ctrl-alt-backspace workaround. Awkward, but it works.

-- cmg


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