F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in

[Rick Stevens]

On 01/03/2013 02:57 PM, Geoffrey Leach issued this missive:
> On 01/03/2013 04:03:57 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
>> After the problems of the last weekend, starting getting strange
>> stuff
>> where the keyboard would freeze if sat on the screensaver login
>> screen
>> too long. Problem got worse, and after (finally) getting a good (?)
>> yum update, and installing the GIMP, inkscape, libreoffice, and some
>> others, a reboot and no keyboard response at all. Not even switching
>> to a virtual screen.
>>
>> I can ssh in and systemctl isolate multi-user.target and get a
>> console
>> and the keyboard works just fine in the console, so it's an X11
>> issue.
>> Found an old thread for F17 where reloading the evdev stuff and
>> generating a new config (xorg -configure, I think) fixed a problem
>> with no keyboard/mouse, and I tried reloading xorg-x11-drv-evdev and
>> runing xorg -configure and got a segfault or something similar and no
>> new configuration file. (No xorg.conf to start with, FWIW.)
>
> This sounds like the problem being tracked by this thread:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816764
>
> The problem appears to be related to a combination of XFWM and GDM. If
> that's what you have, depressing the Shift key for 20 seconds should
> re-enable the keyboard.

I use XFWM and GDM and haven't experienced it on my systems. One is 
using the i915 graphics driver, one is using the radeon driver and two
are using the nvidia binary blob via kmod.
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