[CentOS] keyboard problem

[Scott Silva]

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