OK, I know what I'm doing is "officially unsupported", but perhaps someone has some suggestions... I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware player. I cloned the system, booted the clone to make sure everything worked after cloning, it did. I then booted off a CentOS 6 ISO and did an upgrade (I know, unsupported!). I've got the system to the point where everything works except the keyboard. If I boot to a command line, it works, as soon as X gets involved, there is no response at all from the keyboard. The on-screen keyboard does work. The physical keyboard works in the host OS and all of the other guest OSes on the machine. It works in the original CentOS 5.6 VM. I'm at a loss and would love some advice on where to look next. Thanks! Bruce
bcb wrote: <snip>> I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware > player. I cloned the system, booted the clone to make sure everything > worked after cloning, it did. I then booted off a CentOS 6 ISO and did an > upgrade (I know, unsupported!). I've got the system to the point where > everything works except the keyboard. > > If I boot to a command line, it works, as soon as X gets involved, there > is no response at all from the keyboard. The on-screen keyboard does > work. The physical keyboard works in the host OS and all of the other > guest OSes on the machine. It works in the original CentOS 5.6 VM.<snip> You might want to play with xorg.conf (AFTER MAKING A BACKUP!!!) (I just adore xorg's rewriting a working one into a non-working one.... mark
on 8/9/2011 10:29 AM bcb spake the following:> OK, I know what I'm doing is "officially unsupported", but perhaps someone > has some suggestions... > > I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware > player. I cloned the system, booted the clone to make sure everything > worked after cloning, it did. I then booted off a CentOS 6 ISO and did an > upgrade (I know, unsupported!). I've got the system to the point where > everything works except the keyboard. > > If I boot to a command line, it works, as soon as X gets involved, there > is no response at all from the keyboard. The on-screen keyboard does > work. The physical keyboard works in the host OS and all of the other > guest OSes on the machine. It works in the original CentOS 5.6 VM. > > I'm at a loss and would love some advice on where to look next. > > Thanks! > BruceDid you look for any leftover packages that didn't upgrade? Something like rpm -qa |grep el5
On Tuesday, August 09, 2011 01:29:09 PM bcb wrote:> OK, I know what I'm doing is "officially unsupported",...> I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware > player. I cloned the system, booted the clone to make sure everything > worked after cloning, it did. I then booted off a CentOS 6 ISO and did an > upgrade (I know, unsupported!). I've got the system to the point where > everything works except the keyboard.Well, I ran into an ephemeral issue yesterday during a scratch install of C6 onto VMware ESX 3.5U5 (also not supported, but this time it's unsupported by VMware, not by CentOS). The install went well, and the initial update (200+ packages or so) went well, but the first reboot did not. I got a 'prefdm respawning too fast' issue and a text-mode console; I switched to a different VC, logged in as root, and issued a startx. Both the keyboard and mouse went away, and I could neither click on anything nor even switch to a different VC. I had to reset the VM hard, and was expecting a long day of troubleshooting, but when it rebooted that time it came up without issue, and everything works ok.