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cjdj

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From: Perth, Western Australia

Registered: 2004-05-07

Posts: 121

just did an update and now my mouse and keyboard don't work.

It hasn't been long since I did an update so it only updated a screen full of packages.

I'm attempting to boot from USB to see what packages updated.

cjdj

Member

From: Perth, Western Australia

Registered: 2004-05-07

Posts: 121

Re: just did an update and now my mouse and keyboard don't work.

It updated:

boost-libs
soprano
akonadi
alsa-lib
bfgminer
bitcoin-daemon
bitcoin-qt
opus
libwebp
chromium
clucene
dconf
colors
libcups
qpdf
cups-filters
cups
drop box
flashplugin
gd
get text
git
libgpg-error
gpgme
gstreamer
gst-plugins-base-libs
jre7-openjdk-headless
jre7-openjdk
icedtea-web-java
jdk7-openjdk
kmod
lib32-alsa-lib
lib32-gettext
lib32-libcups
lib32-gtk2
lib32-libgpg-error
llib32-qt4
lib32-tdb
lib32-xz
libassuan
libdrm
libgphoto2
libindi
libkolabxml
libnl
luxmark
man-pages
mc
wayland
mesa
p11-kit
pyobject2-devel
Python2-gobject
python2-markupsafe
rtmpdump
strigi
subversion
svga-dri
tzdata
wine
xdg-user-dirs
xf86-input-evdev
xorg-mkfontscale
xorg-xhost
xorg-xrandr
youtube-dl

Could it be the Wayland stuff?

hibajugala

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Registered: 2013-01-12

Posts: 35

Re: just did an update and now my mouse and keyboard don't work.

xf86-input-evdev handles keyboard and mouse within X. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evdev)

So maybe you could try to chroot into your system from a livecd or USB and attempt to downgrade that package?

Last edited by hibajugala (2013-07-19 06:25:28)

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: just did an update and now my mouse and keyboard don't work.

For things like that list of all those updated packages you should use code tags. 

If you have access to the machine via ssh, maybe you should check to make sure that the evdev module is loaded on the kernel as well.  What kind of hardware is it by the way?

cjdj

Member

From: Perth, Western Australia

Registered: 2004-05-07

Posts: 121

Re: just did an update and now my mouse and keyboard don't work.

Thank you. That got me sorted.  The problem wasn't with the update package but that pacman itself didn't seem to install it correctly.  Acording to pacman that and a bunch of other packages had no files in them.  After I reinstalled them it is working now.

Thanks for the help.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: just did an update and now my mouse and keyboard don't work.

As WonderWoofy remarked, when pasting code or command output, please use [ code ] tags https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

like this

It makes the code more readable and - in case of longer listings - more convenient to scroll through.

Please remember to mark the thread as solved.