Keyboard not working

Yesterday, I did :


$ sudo zypper ref; zypper lu
$ sudo zypper up

Now I’m having problems with type in KDE

  • I can type in Kate or a shell session or in firefox right now by posting to the forum
  • I cannot type in the menu/application launcher(the search box) or edit the desktop icons

$ inxi -Fxxxz
System:    Kernel: 5.3.18-lp152.33-default x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.5.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.18.5 
           tk: Qt 5.12.7 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.2 
Machine:   Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron 5555 v: A12 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 8 v: A12 
           serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0CHHXW v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: Dell v: A12 date: 08/30/2016 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: AMD A10-8700P Radeon R6 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Excavator 
           rev: 1 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 14374 
           Speed: 2480 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2480 2: 2419 3: 2735 4: 2641 
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Wani [Radeon R5/R6/R7 Graphics] vendor: Dell driver: amdgpu 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 chip ID: 1002:9874 
           Device-2: Sunplus Innovation type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 2-4:3 chip ID: 1bcf:2b90 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1280x720~60Hz s-dpi: 96 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon R6 Graphics (CARRIZO DRM 3.33.0 5.3.18-lp152.33-default LLVM 9.0.1) 
           v: 4.5 Mesa 19.3.4 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:01.1 chip ID: 1002:9840 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 15h Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:09.2 chip ID: 1022:157a 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.3.18-lp152.33-default 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 
           bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8136 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Dell driver: ath9k v: kernel 
           port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 168c:0036 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 2-1:4 chip ID: 0cf3:e005 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 70.05 GiB (7.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100 size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm 
           serial: <filter> rev: 3D scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 919.17 GiB used: 70.05 GiB (7.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: /home size: 919.17 GiB used: 70.05 GiB (7.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-3: /opt size: 919.17 GiB used: 70.05 GiB (7.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-4: /tmp size: 919.17 GiB used: 70.05 GiB (7.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-5: /var size: 919.17 GiB used: 70.05 GiB (7.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 12.34 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C mobo: 38.0 C sodimm: 30.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 53 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:      Processes: 200 Uptime: N/A Memory: 11.15 GiB used: 819.9 MiB (7.2%) Init: systemd v: 234 runlevel: 5 
           target: graphical.target Compilers: gcc: N/A Shell: bash v: 4.4.23 running in: konsole inxi: 3.1.00 

In the journal have the following error (I don’t know what it means)


$ sudo journalctl -p 3 -xb --since=today
-- Logs begin at Thu 2020-08-13 11:37:23 PDT, end at Thu 2020-08-13 11:53:48 PDT. --
Aug 13 11:37:33 localhost kernel: sp5100-tco sp5100-tco: Watchdog hardware is disabled
Aug 13 11:38:25 localhost.localdomain systemd[1963]: Failed to start Portal service (GTK+/GNOME implementation).
-- Subject: Unit UNIT has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit UNIT has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
Aug 13 11:39:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1963]: Failed to start Portal service.
-- Subject: Unit UNIT has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit UNIT has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.

Thanks

I used: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE#Configuration_related

  1. renamed all my kde configs
  2. deleted all the caches
  3. rebuild the kde cache
  4. reassign the menu launcher to alt-f1

The reason for the mostly is that I’m going through to reinstate the various configurations that didn’t have any problem.

Hopefully this will also help other people.