[K12OSN] Keyboard stops working after login

[Carl Keil]

Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 08:20:26 +0000
From: Martin Woolley <sysadmin at handsworth.bham.sch.uk>

>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I've got a weird problem.  I have one user who can't use the keyboard
>> after logging in.  (She can type in her user name and password.)  She's
>> in KDE.  When I log in on the same terminal as a different user the
>> keyboard works perfectly.  This is KDE on k12ltsp 4.4.2 (I think)  How
>> do you figure out the version number anyway?  I tried rebooting the
>> terminal and the server with no luck.  Could she have bollucksed up some
>> setting in her account that she's not telling me about?
>  
>

We have seen this, but we don't know what causes it.  Go into the users home 
directory and remove the .kde directory.  When they login again, a new .kde 
dir is generated and it all should be OK again. -  This works for us but YMMV


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Thank you very much for the quick fix.  It worked like a charm.  

ck