Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> I have a USB keyboard attached to my laptop, and I use it as the main
> keyboard. I was using it, and suddenly it no longer worked at all (for
> instance, xev didn't report any event). The device was still seen by
> /lib/udev/findkeyboards and by lsusb. And the laptop keyboard was
> still working. I had to unplug the keyboard and plug it in again so
> that keys worked again (I also had to log out and log in again to make
> special keys work, due to some X window bug I think).
>
> I've had this problem twice: now and a week ago. Never before, AFAIK.

Peculiar.  Do you have a kernel log from when this happened?  Can you
attach "lsusb -v" output describing your keyboard in its normal state?

Thanks for writing and sorry for the trouble,
Jonathan