From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: Periodically the keyboard stops working in X on my laptop. (The mouse continues to function fine.) I cannot switch virtual consoles or anything. Suspending and resuming restores the keyboard successfully. There is nothing obvious about what I was doing that should indicate why it stops. /var/log/messages consistently reports Oct 12 13:43:52 dash udev[18498]: removing device node '/udev/input/event1' as the last event. (Then when I return from suspend/resume, it says: Oct 12 13:46:15 dash udev[18553]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d//50-udev.rules' at line 25 applied, 'event1' becomes 'input/%k' Oct 12 13:46:15 dash udev[18553]: creating device node '/udev/input/event1' Oct 12 13:46:24 dash udev[18600]: removing device node '/udev/vcs63' Oct 12 13:46:24 dash udev[18604]: removing device node '/udev/vcsa63' ) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): udev-024-6 How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: 1. Happens periodically during typing; no obvious way to reproduce it :-( 2. 3. Actual Results: n/a Expected Results: n/a Additional info: The problem is severe, requiring reboot or suspend/resume (and s/r is only possible for me because the battery applet is mouse triggerable). Unfortunately, with no easy way to reproduce the problem, it will be tough to fix. Hardware platform is a Toshiba Portege R100. The problem happens with both kernel 2.6.5-1.358 and 2.6.8-1.521
you could do: # rpm -e udev as you do not require udev. This will remove the messages in /var/log/messages, but not your problem. Your problem may be a bad cable to your keyboard or s.th. like that. Reassigning to component kernel, but I don't think, that it is a software bug...
I was able to reproduce the problem while the machine was booting, so you were correct that this is a hardware problem. Sorry for bothering you about it. I'll try to close it out as NOTABUG, if I can. Thanks!