[ltp] keyboard, and mouse not activated (?)

[Jeffrey L. Taylor]

Quoting philippe.preux@free.fr <philippe.preux@free.fr>:
> Dear all,
> 
> since 2007, I've been running a Debian Sid on my Lenovo X61s, currently with
> kernel 2.6.30-2-686, and using KDE.
> I have had a few stuffs recently happening on it (recently means since September
> let's say; at that time, I was running the 2.6.28 kernel, and I upgraded to the
> 2.6.30 hoping it would solve all these matters, but it did not):
>   - the most embarassing one is that sometimes (maybe once every 10 boots, or
> so, sometimes 3, 4, or 5 times in a row), when X is launched, neither the
> keyboard, nor the mouse can be used (I mean either those on the laptop, or
> external ones, via USB). I can not Ctrl-Fn xx to log on an ascii terminal, I can
> not even reboot it with ctrl-shift-del: nothing works. I have to press the on
> button to reboot it. Has anyone had the same kind of problems.
> Being spurious, it is not easy to investigate. However, I could see during the
> boot, just before X is launched, some messages about udev being printed on the
> screen (udev not active?). I also could see that laptop-mode was being run just
> before that. I also checked the /var/log/syslog files, and on the web, it seems
> that these problems are related to udev (but it is unclear to me).
>

Can you SSH into it?

Jeffrey