Keyboard non-functional after upgrade to 08.04
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After upgrading to 08.04, the keyboard does not work under GNOME. I have a Aluminium iMac, so the keyboard layout is Macintosh. Most keys do nothing; 7-8-9-0 and the keys vertically beneath them function as a numeric keypad.
Obviously, this makes the machine unusable, and it *is* a production machine.
The keyboard works fine on the gdm login screen, and in the failsafe terminal. It does not work in failsafe GNOME, and attempts to change the keyboard layout and get something that would allow me to type letters have failed. The keyboard *does* work as expected in a live session booted from the 08.04 release CD. I upgraded from 07.10 using the Update Manager; no configuration clashes were reported for the keyboard. (I had to modify the alsa-base file to get sound working, so that clashed.)
X server reports an error trying to load the keyboard layout. It asks me to include the following information:
Output of xprop -root | grep XKB:
_XKB_RULES_
Output of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/
layouts = []
model = macintosh
overrideSettings = false
options = []
OK, I've fixed this by moving .gconf/ desktop/ gnome/periphera ls/keyboard up to my home directory. Everything now works just fine, and, of course, I still have all the configuration files if people need them to fix the bug. I can also help by testing things.
This is still a bug, of course. "Upgrading Ubuntu made my computer unusable" is not the user experience you want.