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...