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

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 19:23:29 +0900
Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net>
> wrote:
> > This sounds like the problem being tracked by this thread:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816764
> 
> Bingo.
> 
> Now that I think of it, this started happening after I loaded gdm. And
> I have a bad habit of dozing off with my finger on the shift key,
> especially while trying to log in after midnight.
> 
> However, knowing that's the bug doesn't help. Particularly since the
> bug is still open. I can't afford to have my laptop this unstable.
> Squeeze is replacing Fedora on this netbook tonight. I'll have to try
> to squeeze Fedora into a single spare partition (fitting since Fedora
> is going monolithic these days) on the big box for further studying.
> (Tried it once two days ago, but the security spin installed okay and
> then couldn't find the kernel after the first yum update.)

Fedora has nothing to do with this. If you read the bug report, the
same issue has hit Debian and basically all distributions that use GDM.
Ubuntu evaded the issue by switching their default display manager away
from GDM. And so on...

Just switch the display manager to KDM, lightdm, LXDM, or xdm, and
you're good. ;-)

HTH, :-)
Marko