Comment 43 for bug 197589

Hello,

The solution you posted works, temporairly only. For some reason for
me the box gets checked on its own. This is on 2 computers, one
upgraded to Hardy, the other a fresh install of Hardy.

--- Blempis <email address hidden> wrote:

> I have two desktop computers. Both upgrades from 7.10 to 8.04 were
> painful. Normal internet upgrade failed during the install process
> and cd-upgrade's automatic option didn't work either.
> "A dialog will be displayed offering you the opportunity to upgrade
> using that CD. "
> - Ubuntu
>
> "If the upgrade dialog is not displayed for any reason, you may also
> run the following command using Alt+F2: "
> Not so straight work flow even here. A message popped up claiming
> that cd is not mounted, which it surely was. After remounting system
> seemed to hang but the announcement was hidden. It was under all the
> other windows but nothing indicated that it even exists.
>
> Next step was to realize that cd-upgrade is defenately not going to
> do
> anything nor it is giving any instructions. The lacking piece of
> advise
> was that cd should be added to one's download sources. After that and
> number of error pop-ups everything seemed to be ok, but my numpad
> stopped responding. As I mentioned, all this happened during both
> hardy
> upgrades.
>
> Solution (which is surely not intuitive) was this already mentioned
> one:
> " 1. Go to System > Preferences > Accessibility > Keyboard
> Accessibility
> 2. Select [x] Enable keyboard accessibility features
> 3. Go to the tab Mouse Keys and deselect [ ] Enable keyboard
> accessibility features."
>
>
> - Ubuntu - rather stable if not upgraded to LTS.
>
> --
> Numeric keypad no longer works after upgrade
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197589
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