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nirvana1289

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Registered: 2017-01-11

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] GDM forces use of on-screen keyboard

Hello everybody, thanks for passing by...

It is a week since my GDM started to have a strange behavior. When I'm on the login, keyboard input is not recognized anymore. They simply don't work. Mouse works, and when I click on my user for login, on screen keyboard appears and it is the only way to input my password (quoting someone: Sad!). After login, keyboard works as expected.

I've checked around:

~$ systemctl status gdm.service

● gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sat 2017-02-25 11:30:37 CET; 18min ago
 Main PID: 2894 (gdm)
    Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 11.3M
      CPU: 87ms
   CGroup: /system.slice/gdm.service
           └─2894 /usr/bin/gdm

Feb 25 11:30:37 V3N0M systemd[1]: Starting GNOME Display Manager...
Feb 25 11:30:37 V3N0M systemd[1]: Started GNOME Display Manager.
Feb 25 11:30:39 V3N0M gdm[2894]: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.556620 seconds
Feb 25 11:30:39 V3N0M gdm[2894]: Child process -3082 was already dead.
Feb 25 11:31:58 V3N0M gdm-password][3647]: pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session opened for user nirvana1289 by (uid=0)

~$ journalctl -xe -t gdm

-- Reboot --
Feb 24 15:56:07 V3N0M gdm[2573]: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.522778 seconds
Feb 24 15:56:07 V3N0M gdm[2573]: Child process -2735 was already dead.
Feb 24 15:56:07 V3N0M gdm[2573]: Child process 2652 was already dead.
Feb 24 15:56:07 V3N0M gdm[2573]: Unable to kill session worker process
Feb 24 19:33:36 V3N0M gdm[2573]: GLib: g_hash_table_find: assertion 'version == hash_table->version' failed
-- Reboot --
Feb 25 11:30:39 V3N0M gdm[2894]: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.556620 seconds
Feb 25 11:30:39 V3N0M gdm[2894]: Child process -3082 was already dead.

But I always had

version==hash_table->version

issue... even before this one . Now I will try to enable debug mode in /etc/gdm/custom.conf (just found it) to test and report a little more on the issue...

Last edited by nirvana1289 (2017-02-25 11:04:51)

nirvana1289

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Registered: 2017-01-11

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] GDM forces use of on-screen keyboard

Ops! Apparently solved! ALL Universal Access options were turned on in login screen, and one of them was completely blocking my keyboard. This is my work computer, I suspect it was a joke...

Sorry That I bothered you...

EDIT: yes, it was a succeeded joke....

Last edited by nirvana1289 (2017-02-25 11:09:38)

olegabrielz

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From: Norway

Registered: 2015-12-23

Posts: 255

Re: [SOLVED] GDM forces use of on-screen keyboard

Maybe you should start planning your revenge..!?

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