Bug 335261

Summary:	Keyboard does not work on login screen
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Ulrich Derenthal <uli.2001>
Component:	KDE	Assignee:	E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	sndirsch
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Ulrich Derenthal 2007-10-19 14:20:53 UTC

On the graphical login screen (kdm?), my keyboard does not work properly: initially, the focus is on the password field. When I press certain keys, nothing seems to happen; with other keys, one "dot" appears (as expected), and sometimes, pressing one key leads to a very long series of dots (until the field is filled up, I guess).

Pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1, for example, and then Ctrl+Alt+F7 solves the problem: using backspace, I can remove the contents of the password field, type the password normally, and login.

Otherwise, my keyboard (a "normal" one which worked perfectly with several previous versions of (open)suse) seems to work fine.

On my laptop, the same problem does not appear.

Comment 1 Lubos Lunak 2007-10-19 14:42:50 UTC

- switch to text console, log in as root
- run 'rckdm stop'
- in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, change DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" to say "xdm" instead
- run 'rcxdm start'
- does the problem exist there too? if not, try also rebooting

Comment 2 Ulrich Derenthal 2007-10-21 13:07:09 UTC

With xdm, it works.

Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2007-10-24 09:26:32 UTC

Stefan, any idea what can go wrong here?

Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2007-10-24 09:57:58 UTC

This looks again like a race condition between kbd and earlyxdm. Probably a duplicate of Bug #331528. I suggest to try the following:

- switch back to kdm (in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, change
  DISPLAYMANAGER back to "kdm")
- add kbd to "Should-Start:" line of /etc/init.d/earlyxdm
- run insserv
- reboot the machine

If this still doesn't help, add 'sleep 2' right before 'exec /etc/init.d/xdm ${1+"$@"}' in /etc/init.d/earlyxdm. Reboot.

I no longer think that Bug #302010 can be considered fixed. :-(

Comment 5 Stephan Binner 2007-10-24 21:14:30 UTC

Can you please try what comment #4 describes?

Comment 6 Ulrich Derenthal 2007-10-25 12:02:10 UTC

You mention kbd; note that I also reported Bug #331671 - might this be related?

I will try what #4 describes once I am on that computer again and have the time.

Comment 7 Stefan Dirsch 2007-10-25 13:19:35 UTC

> You mention kbd; note that I also reported Bug #331671 - might this be
> related?
Could well be.

Comment 8 Ulrich Derenthal 2007-10-28 10:40:08 UTC

The suggestions of comment #4 (without the "sleep 2") seem to fix the problem.

Comment 9 Stefan Dirsch 2007-10-28 14:28:42 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 331528 ***