Yep, that sorted it out. USB functioning fine again. That was a rather annoying side effect though! I still don't understand what was actually *missing* to cause that.
On 10 June 2014 23:33, Toby Corkindale <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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 _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
