Keyboard not responsive after yum update fedora 19
 

I have fedora 19 installed and running on my Dell Lattitude E6430. Yum told me the other day that there were updates available. So I let yum update everything.

After updating and rebooting, the keyboard was gone! I can remote ssh to laptop. Gnome and KDE both show same behavior.

Comparing the error from xorg log below (Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so) and the yum log, /var/log/yum.log has this entry
Apr 08 05:25:34 Updated: 1:xorg-x11-drv-evdev-1.0.0.5-5.0.2.el5.x86_64

I wonder if this is where things went bad. If so, I'm going to have to figure out how to undo this or repair it. Anyone have advice on this?

Some info:
uname -r
3.13.7-100.fc19.x86_64


/usr/bin/lsusb
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0a5c:5801 Broadcom Corp. BCM5880 Secure Applications Processor with fingerprint swipe sensor
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 413c:2513 Dell Computer Corp. internal USB Hub of E-Port Replicator
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0c45:643f Microdia
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 413c:5534 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0557:2213 ATEN International Co., Ltd CS682 2-Port USB 2.0 DVI KVM Switch
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 03f0:1f04 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 413c:2134 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Looking in Xorg.0.log shows this:
[ 57.117] (**) Dell WMI hotkeys: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 57.117] (**) Dell WMI hotkeys: Applying InputClass "system-keyboard"
[ 57.117] (II) LoadModule: "evdev"
[ 57.117] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 57.117] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so: undefined symbol: xf86GetMotionEvents
[ 57.117] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[ 57.117] (II) Unloading evdev
[ 57.117] (EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (loader failed, 7)
[ 57.117] (EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
[ 63.098] (II) intel(0): Allocated new frame buffer 2624x900 stride 10752, tiled


Contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
# Read and parsed by systemd-localed. It's probably wise not to edit this file
# manually too freely.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "system-keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Thanks!
Dave

First thing I would do is boot to a Live CD of something other than Fedora and verify that the keyboard is, indeed, functional. If it is, it is definitely a problem with your software load; if it isn't, the keyboard may well have failed.

If the keyboard has indeed failed, no amount of mucking about with software will fix it.

Never overlook the obvious, I know right? Keyboard works fine in the circumstance you mention. How do you roll back a library to a previous version? Is that the best thing to try now?
Thanks,
Dave

check the logs there will/should be a list of what was updated/changed/modified. you should be able to track that. also with F19 you should be prompted at boot to choose the kernel version you wish to start. choose the last working kernel and run from there. also file a bug report with fedora. F19 will be going out of support in a few months, but still not bad to tell them hey you broke something.

Unfortunately it makes no difference the kernel version I boot into: no keyboard. It's an X11 problem, isn't it, not kernel. I need to figure out, I think, how to recreate X11.

I was able to solve the problem finally.

Did this:
yum downgrade xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64

which resulted in
this version: xorg-x11-drv-evdev-1.0.0.5-5.0.2.el5.x86_64
going to
this one: 1:xorg-x11-drv-evdev-1.0.0.5-5.0.1.el5.x86_64

However, still keyboard not working. So I tried the downgrade one more time, which resulted in
this version: 1:xorg-x11-drv-evdev-1.0.0.5-5.0.1.el5.x86_64
going to
this one: xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.8.1-2.fc19.x86_64

Keyboard works, and I'm happy once again.

Thanks for all the advice.
Dave