Hi, I have another box with openSuSE 11.0 installed and recently typed a few rubbish characters into a file I was planning on retrieving remotely as well as plugging a USB flash disk. Immediately after this my keyboard would not respond to ANY input. I unplugged the flash disk but still no go. As I have had the kb a while I figured it had finally given up and so replaced it with a new one. Same result ie I am able to login but thereafter the kb is prevented from interacting with the system. I plugged in the old kb and logged into the root acoount and the kb worked fine on entering data into OOo. This to me points to the user profile being corrupt. I had a look in Yast to see if there was anything that might prevent my user using the kb and found nothing. So I phoned a Linux Guru. He told me that this sort of behaviour is apparently indicative of the X-Server being corrupt and that running: init 3 and sax2 -r should solve the issue. It happens if I had installed new hardware, with I had not, bar the USB pen drive. I ran init 3, logged in with the unprivileged user, tried the sax2 cmd and was denied access. I then su -, and tried again and as root the sax2 command completed. I logged out entirely and tried to login as the unprivileged user but got the same result ie kb wouldn't work after initial login. Old habits die hard and I then rebooted the system via the CLI and root, strangely enough the unprivileged user couldn't shutdown the machine, although they have done it before. Before any sysadmins pull their hair out I am the only user of the system and consequently mostly use the underprivileged user for day to day tasks but also have the root password if it hits the fan. :) The file system, in software RAID 5 mode, then needed an fsck and I said yes to all the messages fsck gave me about clearing blocks and changing inode numbers etc. After this the machine booted OK but still after login with the user, I cannot use the kb. I cannot do a fresh install and I have tried the 'Repair installation' on the install CD with no luck. Any suggestions, besides crying :) ? Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org