On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:01:07 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote:

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

but there is no xorg.conf and there are indications on line that it's no longer used, preferring dynamic configuration and xrandr instead. Of course xrandr is only display, not kbd, configuration...

Bruce

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 02:55:17PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

bcb wrote:

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On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:01:07 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote:

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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. >

but there is no xorg.conf and there are indications on line that it's no longer used, preferring dynamic configuration and xrandr instead. Of course xrandr is only display, not kbd, configuration...

Dunno. I'm running 6 on my workstation, and I *do* have an xorg.conf, though I will admit that I'm also using kmod-nvidia, and twinview (two monitors, spanning).

If I rememeber correctly, nvidia modules usually create an xorg.conf. You might try reinstalling xorg-x11-drv-keyboard

On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:09:25 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:

on 8/9/2011 10:29 AM bcb spake the following:

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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

On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:43:24 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:

I would do my best to eliminate any el5 leftovers, and replace with el6 versions. It will only come back later and bite you...

Of course!. At the moment, I've eliminated/upgraded all of the el5 packages to el6 ones except for the various nss packages. The "problem" there (and maybe I'm just a bit ignorant about the right way around this) is nss-softokn-freebl which has a conflict with nss-3.12.8-4.el5_6. Normally I'd just rpm --erase --nodeps latter package, but when you do that, yum, rpm, etc no longer work to install the newer version, complaining vehemently about a missing nss package :-(

I'd love to know how to resolve that issue.

Thanks! Bruce

on 8/9/2011 1:22 PM bcb spake the following:

On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:43:24 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:

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I would do my best to eliminate any el5 leftovers, and replace with el6 versions. It will only come back later and bite you...

Of course!. At the moment, I've eliminated/upgraded all of the el5 packages to el6 ones except for the various nss packages. The "problem" there (and maybe I'm just a bit ignorant about the right way around this) is nss-softokn-freebl which has a conflict with nss-3.12.8-4.el5_6. Normally I'd just rpm --erase --nodeps latter package, but when you do that, yum, rpm, etc no longer work to install the newer version, complaining vehemently about a missing nss package :-(

I'd love to know how to resolve that issue.

Thanks! Bruce

This is a shining example of why RedHat says NOT to upgrade between major versions. It takes as much (or more) work to fix it as it does to just start over...