keyboard won't work loginmanager starts

You may want to add what distributor of computer you are using.

This bug occured on a Fujitsu-Siemens S7110.

When switching consoles I found that the input I tried to enter into the password fields is put on vt-7 behind the first started xserver. The restarted xserver is placed on vt-8 though.

Same problem here on HP nw8440 laptop. It does not work with laptop or external keyboard.
Restart of kdm solves the problem.

Also, when I run docked, my USB mouse also does not work in KDM login screen (but touchpad works OK).

BTW, it works if I install gdm instead of kdm: gdm will properly get keyboard input after reboot (no need to restart).
This may indicate it is not xorg bug, but may be related to kdm (KDE4 package).

Similar issue with kdm after logout: bug 248651
Similar issues also reported with gnome: bug 254840

I did a diff of both files. The main difference is that the evdev_drv.so is not loaded the first time xorg is started. If I understand the log correctly xorg uses hal to discover hardware?!? This smells like some nasty dependency problem. When looking at /etc/rc3.d/ you will see this:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-12-01 00:21 S13kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-04-30 19:18 S24hal -> ../init.d/hal
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-12-01 02:03 S30gdm -> ../init.d/gdm

If hal is used by X then kdm should have a id greater than 24. Maybe just give it S30kde ;-)

I had a look at the kdebase-workspace-4.1.0/debian/kdm.postinst. There you can find this:

if [ -x "/etc/init.d/kdm" ]; then
  update-rc.d kdm defaults 99 01 >/dev/null
fi

which is broken for updates from previous releases.

ran

update-rc.d -f kdm remove
update-rc.d kdm defaults 99 01

and the bug is fixed for me. Reassigning to kdebase-workspace

Workaround works here (uptodate Kubuntu intrepid). Thanks a lot!

still present in 4:4.1.0-0ubuntu8

Problem was KDM from Hardy (i.e. KDE 3) was using S13, KDM from Intrepid (i.e. KDE 4) was using S99 but not providing the neessary command to ensure S13 gets changed to S99.
I now changed S99 in Intrepid to S30 (same as GDM) and ensure transition from S99 and S13 works properly.

Works great for upgrades but totally fails to run update-rc.d on new installs now.

# dpkg -i kdm_4.1.0-0ubuntu9_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package kdm.
(Reading database ... 39651 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kdm (from kdm_4.1.0-0ubuntu9_i386.deb) ...
Setting up kdm (4:4.1.0-0ubuntu9) ...

Processing triggers for man-db ...
/home# cd /etc/
/etc# ls -l rc*|grep kdm
/etc#
After install of ubuntu8:
/etc# ls -l rc*|grep kdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 29 17:57 K01kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 29 17:57 K01kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 29 17:57 S99kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 29 17:57 S99kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 29 17:57 S99kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 29 17:57 S99kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 29 17:57 K01kdm -> ../init.d/kdm

After upgrade:
/home# dpkg -i kdm_4.1.0-0ubuntu9_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 39788 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kdm 4:4.1.0-0ubuntu8 (using kdm_4.1.0-0ubuntu9_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement kdm ...
Setting up kdm (4:4.1.0-0ubuntu9) ...
 Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/kdm ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K01kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
   /etc/rc1.d/K01kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
   /etc/rc6.d/K01kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
   /etc/rc2.d/S30kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
   /etc/rc3.d/S30kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
   /etc/rc4.d/S30kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
   /etc/rc5.d/S30kdm -> ../init.d/kdm

Easy enough to fix ...

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This bug was fixed in the package kdebase-workspace - 4:4.1.0-0ubuntu9

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kdebase-workspace (4:4.1.0-0ubuntu9) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Update existing S99kdm (from previous 4:4.x) or S13kdm (from KDE 3
    installations) to S30kdm (LP: #256261)

 -- Harald Sitter <email address hidden> Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:20:00 +0200

Still not fixed for me with Kubuntu Intrepid 8.10 stable on one of my computer which has been upgraded since Hoary.

Running :
update-rc.d -f kdm remove
update-rc.d kdm defaults 99 01
did the trick.