On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:03:57PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> After the problems of the last weekend, starting getting strange stuff
> where the keyboard would freeze if sat on the screensaver login screen
> too long. Problem got worse, and after (finally) getting a good (?)
> yum update, and installing the GIMP, inkscape, libreoffice, and some
> others, a reboot and no keyboard response at all. Not even switching
> to a virtual screen.
> 
> I can ssh in and systemctl isolate multi-user.target and get a console
> and the keyboard works just fine in the console, so it's an X11 issue.
> Found an old thread for F17 where reloading the evdev stuff and
> generating a new config (xorg -configure, I think) fixed a problem
> with no keyboard/mouse, and I tried reloading xorg-x11-drv-evdev and
> runing xorg -configure and got a segfault or something similar and no
> new configuration file. (No xorg.conf to start with, FWIW.)
> 
> Haven't find any relavent error messages in /var/log so far.
> 
> Any ideas what's going on here?

Do you see excessive or constant hard disk activity at that time? I get
into similar states now and then with my laptop, and it's always
accompanied by constant hard disk activity. No ideas on what is causing
it, though.

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