Loosing the keyboard

[Mateusz Marzantowicz]

On 19.09.2012 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.
>
>

Sounds very mysterious, especially this part with lost keyboard. What
exactly does it mean? Are you unable to type in characters or what? What
apps are involved and how do you know that keyboard is lost?

kworker is a kernel thread and it has nothing to do with keyboard. The k
in the beginning stands for kernel not keyboard.

Maybe you have broken keyboard? Does this happen with other keyboards
attached to this computer?


Mateusz Marzantowicz