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

[Joel Rees]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

That's why I don't use sid.  :-P

(Have not seen this at all in squeeze.)

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

Okay, at your suggestion, I'm trying lightdm.

I see it has both suspend and hibernate available in the login screen,
which is a plus for me.

Looks nice, slowkeys is not enabled.

Does not erase all the other problems I've had moving from F16 to F17,
or the roughly two weeks of winter holidays I've lost to Fedora when I
should have been doing lots of stuff for my present job, cleaning up
my resume for when the current contract ends, and following up on
three job leads. Not to mention spending time with the family.

Well, I did get some nice family time in today, which is why Fedora is
still there. 8-/

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Joel Rees