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Mouse and keyboard not working UBUNTU (configuration issue)

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Klownerz22 Posted messages 2 Status Member -  
 fernet421 -
Hello,

Everything was going perfectly in the best of all possible worlds until this morning when I turned on my desktop PC, and
boom, my mouse and keyboard no longer work, I can't log into Ubuntu 18.04.

Several useful pieces of information:
- The peripherals work in the BIOS = when I turn on my computer and try to fiddle with the BIOS, they work without any problems. When I exit the BIOS and arrive at Ubuntu (and already at the GRUB loader), they no longer work!

- Fortunately, I still have access to my computer via SSH, so I can provide you with the outputs of the commands you need to help me. Thank you in advance for your assistance!

The ultimate solution would be to reinstall the entire operating system, but that's a bit heavy-handed and annoying. If anyone has ideas for a gentler method, that would be great :)

David

Configuration: Linux / Firefox 68.0

1 answer

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    mamiemando Posted messages 33228 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   7 944
     
    Hello,

    1) Does the ctrl alt f1 shortcut work on the affected PC (it should allow you to switch to text mode and avoid going through an 
    ssh
    connection)?

    2) Is the 
    xserver-xorg-input-all
    package still installed? 

    sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-all


    Good luck
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    1. Klownerz22 Posted messages 2 Status Member
       
      Impeccable, it's working again! Everything was up to date though, I can hardly see how I could have deleted such a package! Thank you very much.
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    2. mamiemando Posted messages 33228 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   7 944
       
      Hello,

      This can happen when you have conflicts with packages; the package manager can sometimes make poor decisions. That's why you should always keep an eye on the packages that will be uninstalled as a result of an update.

      Best of luck
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    3. fernet421
       
      Hello,
      as for me, I had the problem, I had a .dbus file in my home directory /home/xxxx that was owned by root and not by my user. I changed the ownership back to myself (chown xxx:xxx -Rv .dbus), rebooted, and it works.
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