Ah, I think I've spotted a very likely cause of the problem -- the
upgrade downloaded a few .deb packages that were totally borked..
During the upgrade it mentioned that samba had failed to install
properly but continued.. I didn't think anything else had failed.
But looking around inside a chroot, I see that actually hundreds of
packages haven't been installed or configured. Let's see how things go
after I fix those..

On 10 June 2014 22:45, Toby Corkindale <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've found myself in a bit of a confused state.
> I upgraded a machine from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS, and have now
> lost USB keyboard input. (And possibly lost other USB input devices,
> but I can't tell as it boots to textmode console only)
> Keyboards work in BIOS and at the Grub prompt, but not after the
> kernel has booted.
>
> The machine was previously running the 14.04 kernel, so that hasn't
> actually changed.
> If I boot the machine with a USB key running a fresh version of Ubuntu
> 14.04, the keyboard works fine too.
> I've tried several keyboards, and every combination of USB-related
> option in the BIOS to no avail.
>
> I assume that somewhere in the past couple of years, I've modified
> something on this machine which is now conflicting with something
> that's been upgraded.. but I have no idea what.
> I can get at the filesystem to edit things via the bootable USB
> version of Ubuntu.
> Any ideas of what to try?
>
> Cheers,
> Toby



-- 
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
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