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Keyboard not responding for about 20 seconds at startup.

Asked by DP

Hi,

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 (the issue is the same on 32 and 64 bit versions) on an old (5.5 years) HP Pavilion DV2530el. I changed the HDD with a SSD and therefore the boot time is now quite low (10 seconds from power up to login screen).

However, when I get to the login screen and try to type the password of my user, I cannot type anything: I must wait for about 20 seconds: after that the keyboard works perfectly. Same issue if I use autologin and try to type something in the Dash.

I may mention that keyboard is working well in the BIOS, that mouse is working perfectly and that the keyboard does not suffer of any other issues after these "magic seconds" have passed. It looks like the system needs all that time to make the keyboard available to the user: can this be the case?

What can I do in order to understand what is happening? Could this be a bug of Ubuntu?

Thanks for your help.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you wait until the keyboard becomes active then run:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; dmesg | tail -n 25

What is output?

Thanks

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DP (pederiva.d) said : 		#2

Hi acptionparsnip,

thanks for your answer. Here is the result of the command you suggested. Does this help in order to understand the problem?

Thank you.

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No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux danilo-laptop 3.2.0-23-generic-pae #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 22:19:09 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[ 4.204489] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 4.204492] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 4.204495] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 4.218849] iwl3945 0000:06:00.0: loaded firmware version 15.32.2.9
[ 4.253067] input: PS/2 Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input6
[ 4.269367] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input7
[ 4.294187] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 4.294564] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 4.696523] acpi device:09: registered as cooling_device2
[ 4.745054] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:01/input/input8
[ 4.745128] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 4.745206] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[ 4.745263] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[ 4.745340] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 48 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 4.745380] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 4.767111] init: plymouth-splash main process (1136) terminated with status 1
[ 4.783465] hda_codec: CX20549 (Venice): BIOS auto-probing.
[ 4.785259] input: HDA Intel Front Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input9
[ 12.532066] wlan0: authenticate with 00:18:4d:fe:c8:5e (try 1)
[ 12.533646] wlan0: authenticated
[ 12.537080] wlan0: associate with 00:18:4d:fe:c8:5e (try 1)
[ 12.539842] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:18:4d:fe:c8:5e (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1)
[ 12.539848] wlan0: associated
[ 12.543271] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 22.896244] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Are there any bugs reported?

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DP (pederiva.d) said : 		#4

Hi again,
I did not open any bug report and I tried to look up a similar issues on Launchpad Bugs Ubuntu but I could not find a similar issue. What do you suggest to do?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

I suggest you report a bug, you can start the process with:

ubuntu-bug Xorg

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DP (pederiva.d) said : 		#6

Thank you. The bug report I created can be found at the following link:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1024870

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