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Old 06-28-2004, 11:58 AM   #1
gkchicago
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Redhat Linux Terminal Keyboard Not Responding


Hey guys,

Having a problem with my Redhat 9.0 Linux box. I have no problem logging into this machine over the network via ssh but the other day when I hooked up a monitor/keyboard to it the keyboard wouldn't work. After a reboot the keyboard worked fine in the boot loader, then in grub fine, but after linux booted there was no response. No ctrl-alt-del, not even num lock toggle.

Edit:
- This IS a ps/2 keyboard
- runlevel 3

Any Ideas?
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Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 syslog: klogd startup succeeded
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 kernel: Linux version 2.4.20-18.9 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu May 29 07:08:16 EDT 2003
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6c00 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000040fd800 (usable)
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000040fd800 - 00000000040ff800 (ACPI data)
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000040ff800 - 00000000040ffc00 (ACPI NVS)
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000040ffc00 - 0000000010000000 (usable)
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 kernel: 0MB HIGHMEM available.
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 kernel: 256MB LOWMEM available.
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 65536
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 portmap: portmap startup succeeded
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 kernel: zone(1): 61440 pages.
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 kernel: Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 kernel: Detected 498.861 MHz processor.
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 rpc.statd[1499]: Version 1.0.1 Starting
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 996.14 BogoMIPS
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 kernel: Memory: 252976k/262144k available (1356k kernel code, 6720k reserved, 1004k data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 keytable: Loading keymap:
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Jun 24 16:47:49 linngrp1 keytable:
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 keytable:
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 rc: Starting keytable:  succeeded
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: Intel machine check architecture supported.
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 random: Initializing random number generator:  succeeded
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Jun 24 16:47:48 linngrp1 network: Bringing up interface eth0:  succeeded
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 rc: Starting pcmcia:  succeeded
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd993, last bus=1
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Jun 24 16:47:50 linngrp1 kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Jun 24 16:47:51 linngrp1 netfs: Mounting other filesystems:  succeeded
Jun 24 16:47:51 linngrp1 kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Jun 24 16:47:51 linngrp1 kernel: Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Jun 24 16:47:51 linngrp1 kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Jun 24 16:47:51 linngrp1 kernel: isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Jun 24 16:47:51 linngrp1 apmd[1567]: Version 3.0.2 (APM BIOS 1.2, Linux driver 1.16)
Jun 24 16:47:51 linngrp1 kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Jun 24 16:47:51 linngrp1 apmd: apmd startup succeeded
Jun 24 16:47:51 linngrp1 kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Jun 24 16:47:51 linngrp1 kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Jun 24 16:47:51 linngrp1 kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Jun 24 16:47:51 linngrp1 kernel: Starting kswapd
Jun 24 16:47:52 linngrp1 kernel: VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Jun 24 16:47:52 linngrp1 kernel: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Jun 24 16:47:52 linngrp1 kernel: pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Jun 24 16:47:52 linngrp1 autofs: automount startup succeeded
Jun 24 16:47:52 linngrp1 kernel: Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
Jun 24 16:47:52 linngrp1 kernel: ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Jun 24 16:47:52 linngrp1 kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Jun 24 16:47:52 linngrp1 kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Jun 24 16:47:52 linngrp1 kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Jun 24 16:47:52 linngrp1 kernel: NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
Jun 24 16:47:52 linngrp1 kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Jun 24 16:47:52 linngrp1 apmd[1567]: Charge: * * * (-1% unknown)
Jun 24 16:47:52 linngrp1 kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta3-.2.4
Jun 24 16:47:53 linngrp1 kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jun 24 16:47:53 linngrp1 kernel: PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
Jun 24 16:47:53 linngrp1 kernel: PIIX4: chipset revision 1
Jun 24 16:47:53 linngrp1 kernel: PIIX4: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jun 24 16:47:53 linngrp1 kernel:     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1040-0x1047, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Jun 24 16:47:53 linngrp1 kernel: hda: Maxtor 83201D6, ATA DISK drive
Jun 24 16:47:53 linngrp1 kernel: hdb: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x50)
Jun 24 16:47:53 linngrp1 kernel: hdb: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x50)
Jun 24 16:47:53 linngrp1 kernel: blk: queue c03cdfe0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Jun 24 16:47:53 linngrp1 kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jun 24 16:47:53 linngrp1 kernel: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
Jun 24 16:47:54 linngrp1 kernel: hda: host protected area => 1
Jun 24 16:47:54 linngrp1 kernel: hda: 6267744 sectors (3209 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=777/128/63, UDMA(33)
Jun 24 16:47:54 linngrp1 kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Jun 24 16:47:54 linngrp1 kernel: Partition check:
Jun 24 16:47:54 linngrp1 kernel:  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
Jun 24 16:47:54 linngrp1 kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Jun 24 16:47:54 linngrp1 kernel: md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
Jun 24 16:47:54 linngrp1 kernel: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
Jun 24 16:47:54 linngrp1 kernel: md: autorun ...
Jun 24 16:47:54 linngrp1 kernel: md: ... autorun DONE.
Jun 24 16:47:54 linngrp1 sshd:  succeeded
Jun 24 16:47:54 linngrp1 kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Jun 24 16:47:55 linngrp1 kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Jun 24 16:47:55 linngrp1 kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
Jun 24 16:47:55 linngrp1 kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Jun 24 16:47:55 linngrp1 kernel: Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
Jun 24 16:47:55 linngrp1 kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Jun 24 16:47:55 linngrp1 kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Jun 24 16:47:55 linngrp1 kernel: Freeing initrd memory: 143k freed
Jun 24 16:47:55 linngrp1 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Jun 24 16:47:55 linngrp1 kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 07:14:02 May 29 2003
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0c.0
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:10.0
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1000, IRQ 9
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
Jun 24 16:47:56 linngrp1 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hid
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: Adding Swap: 524152k swap-space (priority -1)
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.2.21-k1
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: Copyright (c) 2003 Intel Corporation
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel:
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0f.0
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: e100: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel:
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Jun 24 16:47:57 linngrp1 kernel: e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex
Jun 24 16:47:58 linngrp1 xinetd[1618]: xinetd Version 2.3.11 started with libwrap loadavg options compiled in.
Jun 24 16:47:58 linngrp1 xinetd[1618]: Started working: 1 available service
Jun 24 16:47:59 linngrp1 xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Jun 24 16:47:59 linngrp1 kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Jun 24 16:47:59 linngrp1 ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded
Jun 24 16:47:59 linngrp1 ntpd[1632]: ntpd 4.1.1c-rc1@1.836 Thu Feb 13 12:17:19 EST 2003 (1)
Jun 24 16:48:00 linngrp1 mysqld: Starting MySQL:  succeeded
Jun 24 16:48:00 linngrp1 ntpd[1632]: precision = 11 usec
Jun 24 16:48:00 linngrp1 ntpd[1632]: kernel time discipline status 0040
Jun 24 16:48:00 linngrp1 gpm: gpm startup succeeded
Jun 24 16:48:01 linngrp1 crond: crond startup succeeded
Jun 24 16:48:04 linngrp1 xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Jun 24 16:48:05 linngrp1 anacron: anacron startup succeeded
Jun 24 16:48:05 linngrp1 xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled (unreadable)
Jun 24 16:48:05 linngrp1 xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled (unreadable)
Jun 24 16:48:05 linngrp1 xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled (unreadable)
Jun 24 16:48:05 linngrp1 xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc (unreadable)
Jun 24 16:48:05 linngrp1 xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 (unreadable)
Jun 24 16:48:05 linngrp1 xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo (unreadable)
Jun 24 16:48:05 linngrp1 xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic (unreadable)
Jun 24 16:48:05 linngrp1 atd: atd startup succeeded
Jun 24 16:48:11 linngrp1 rc: Starting mailman:  succeeded

Last edited by gkchicago; 06-28-2004 at 12:06 PM.
 
Old 06-29-2004, 01:08 AM   #2
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You don't say if you are booting to a terminal or to X. In your boot messages I see references to HID drivers being loaded, which would imply USB mouse and/or keyboard. If you are booting to X and have configured a different type of keyboard (e.g., USB instead of PS/2) than you are using, then you will have the type of problems you describe.
 
Old 06-29-2004, 10:47 AM   #3
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You don't say if you are booting to a terminal or to X. In your boot messages I see references to HID drivers being loaded, which would imply USB mouse and/or keyboard. If you are booting to X and have configured a different type of keyboard (e.g., USB instead of PS/2) than you are using, then you will have the type of problems you describe.
Sorry about the lack of information. This is a PS/2 keyboard, X is not installed, and I just updated the kernel (from 2.4.20-18.9 to 2.4.20-31.9) with no effect. This machine runs in runlevel 3 so it is booting to a system terminal.
 
Old 06-29-2004, 11:07 AM   #4
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Some suggestions to try (one at a time):
1) disable USB in your BIOS
2) disable gpm
3) disable kudzu (saw this suggested when I googled on the issue)
 
Old 06-29-2004, 12:26 PM   #5
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Some suggestions to try (one at a time):
1) disable USB in your BIOS
2) disable gpm
3) disable kudzu (saw this suggested when I googled on the issue)
Alright, cool! I had already disabled USB to no effect before your message but after disabling "gpm" the keyboard now works again! Thanks Idaho.
 
  


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