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Title: 4.8.11 on reboot, session chooser, no keyboard or mouse (SOLVED)
Post by: dcarrco on 2016/12/07, 18:20:21
i moved to siduction from solydx a few months ago and like it a lot.  i have been keeping up with things and all seemed well... until yesterday.  i hadnt rebooted in a while (and maybe through a couple kernel updates) and all looks right until the screen switched to the session chooser and my keyboard and mouse are disappeared.  my keyboard shift light wont come on and mouse cursor disappears. 

i can boot into recovery mode but cant seem to find which thing is failing, or how to switch to a different session chooser.  i have tried unplugging all USB devices, switching mouse and keyboard, and today im just back in my old solydx installation so i can get work done.  any ideas what i could try?  if i boot into recovery and look at the journal it looks like all went fine.  and of course if i try to boot normally i have to hard reset my machine because all inputs are dead.

i tried 4.8.11, 4.8.12, and then back to 4.8.8 and 4.8.9.  same thing.
Title: Re: 4.8.11 on reboot, session chooser, no keyboard or mouse
Post by: devil on 2016/12/07, 18:59:00
Have you tried a different mouse? What flavour of siduction are you using? Are you fully dist-upgrades as of today?
Title: Re: 4.8.11 on reboot, session chooser, no keyboard or mouse
Post by: dcarrco on 2016/12/07, 19:10:21
yes i have tried different mouse and keyboard, both USB and ps/2 style.  i am using 64 bit paintitblack xfce siduction.
i fully dist-upgraded a few days ago. 
Title: Re: 4.8.11 on reboot, session chooser, no keyboard or mouse
Post by: towo on 2016/12/07, 22:06:04
Post the output of


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dpkg -l | grep xorg
Title: Re: 4.8.11 on reboot, session chooser, no keyboard or mouse
Post by: devil on 2016/12/07, 22:06:45
Since Xorg transitioned not long ago, which was accompanied by package removals, if you were not carefull, you might have lost some packages. What does
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dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg-input show?



Title: Re: 4.8.11 on reboot, session chooser, no keyboard or mouse
Post by: dcarrco on 2016/12/08, 00:21:23
@towo output of
dpkg -l | grep xorg is
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ii  xorg-sgml-doctools                          1:1.11-1                          all          Common tools for building X.Org SGML documentation
rc  xserver-xorg                                1:7.7+17                          amd64        X.Org X server
ii  xserver-xorg-core                           2:1.19.0-2                        amd64        Xorg X server - core server
ii  xserver-xorg-legacy                         2:1.19.0-2                        amd64        setuid root Xorg server wrapper
rc  xserver-xorg-video-intel                    2:2.99.917+git20161105-1          amd64        X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver

and @devil out put of
dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg-input

shows nothing.
Title: Re: 4.8.11 on reboot, session chooser, no keyboard or mouse (SOLVED)
Post by: dcarrco on 2016/12/08, 01:55:52
the answer seemed sort of obvious so i went ahead and booted into recovery mode, installed xserver-xorg-input-all metapackage and im good to go.  im not sure when that package got removed but maybe i did it in one of those absent-minded autoremove commands.  anyway, thanks for heading me in the right direction.