[kde-freebsd] Keyboard problems and crashes following upgrade to 4.3.5 _partially solved

[David Southwell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Southwell [mailto:david at vizion2000.net] 
> Sent: 01 March 2010 05:51
> To: kde-freebsd at kde.org
> Cc: david at vizion2000.net
> Subject: Keyboard problems and crashes following upgrade to 4.3.5
> 
> I reported problems following an upgrade ro 4.3.5 in a 
> previous thread:
> kde4 Upgrade to 4.3.5 -problems 
> 
> The major problem was solved (kde would not load) BUT I am 
> now left without a working keyboard although the mouse works 
> and total system crash in a specific kde4 situation.
> 
> Now after kde4 loads with usual plasmas no keyboard input was 
> possible despite the following entries  in /etc/rc.conf
> 
> hald_enable="YES"
> dbus_enable="YES"
> 
> When I say no keyboard there is a response to Function keys!
> 
> I wanted experiment. I logged out using the mouse. Then I 
> plugged in an another keyboard (this time on the USB bus). 
> Tested that both kbs worked worked (before starting x) on a 
> normal console and then
> 
> % startx
> 
> produced a total system crash!
> 
> I removed the additional keyboard, & after booting to single 
> user mode and running fsck tried startx again.
> 
> Kde started fine. However still no keyboard function.
> 
> Logged out and tried
> % startx
> again -- system crashed again!!!. 
> So the crash does not seem to have anything to do with the 
> second keyboard but a lot to do with logging out of X and 
> trying to log in again.
> 
> Does anyone have any clue here?
> 
> Again this is freebsd 7.2 p3 amd64 on intel quad core.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> David
> 
OK solved the kb problem -- I removed the file

.kde4/share/config/kaccessrc

and now we have a working kb!!!

Now to investigate the crash issues!

david