[CentOS] keyboard problem

[Scott Silva]

on 8/9/2011 12:34 PM bcb spake the following:
> On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:09:25 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
>
>> 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!
>>> Bruce
>> Did you look for any leftover packages that didn't upgrade? Something
>> like rpm -qa |grep el5
>
> bingo!
>
> xorg-x11-drv-evdev was still haning around from 5.6.  Couldn't "update"
> it, so erased it, then installed it and all (so far) is right with the
> keyboard.  There are a few others that are still "old" but that was the
> problem this time.
>
> Thanks!
> Bruce
I would do my best to eliminate any el5 leftovers, and replace with el6 
versions. It will only come back later and bite you...