unresponsive keyboard or mouse

Hello ,

I am running openSUSE 11.1 for the past 2 years. (DELL Vostro 1500) No problems.
Today the system would not go up saying… could not update ICEauthority
which I took care by (as SU) chown -R alon /home/alon
At least now I got the desktop up and running. But the Keyboard mouse and touchpad are non responsive.
I ran sax2-r because I cannot OK because the GUI requires a keyboard or mouse.
ran sax2 -a → to no avail.

The keyboard works from the command line when I log in in safe mode.
But not once the X is running.

I am running out of ideas
Any ideas how to get my keyboard to work once the X is running.

Thanks

NoProbix wrote:
> Today the system would not go up saying… could not update
> ICEauthority … I am running out of ideas

i have an idea for you: stop logging into KDE/Gnome/whatever desktop
environment as root…which is most likely the way your ICEauthority
got to where it was unusable…

you should never log into KDE/Gnome/XFCE or any other *nix-like
graphical user interface desktop environment as root…

doing so 1) opens you up to several different security problems, 2)
too many too easy ways to damage your system no matter how careful
your actions (example: just browsing in your home directory while
logged into KDE/Gnome/etc as root can lock you out later as yourself
due to permissions damage), 3) and, anyway logging into KDE/etc as
root is never required to do any and all administrative duties…

so, always log in as yourself, and “become root” by using a root
powered application (like YaST, File Manager Superuser Mode) or using
“su -”, sudo, kdesu, or gnomesu in a terminal to launch whatever tool
is needed (like Kwrite to edit a config file)…read more on all that
here:

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Login_as_root
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-runtime/userguide/root.html
http://tinyurl.com/6ry6yd
http://tinyurl.com/ydbwssh


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Point taken.

DO you have a solution to my problem?

NoProbix wrote:

> DO you have a solution to my problem?

no, because i have no idea what else might be scrambled by logging
into KDE/Gnome/Whatever as root…

you might try adding a new user, then log into that user and see if
the keyboard/mouse works…if it does it means that something other
than ICEa* was damaged inside your /home…

what, i don’t know…you can find what else is wrong by comparing the
files in the working home with the files in the non-working home until
you find the problem…using some tool like diff…but, take a lot of
patience…

also you can probably fix all the damage done by doing a full backup
of all your important stuff and then a fresh install…

maybe if the new user works you can move all your stuff from the old
/home to the new *home…but, that is kinda tricky too, because if
you move the problem file(s) the new /home will stop working…

it is LOT easier to not log into the GUI as root in the first place…


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