[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu frontend upgrade to 9.10 - Myth ignores keyboard input

[Mike Perkins]

greg at nodecam.com wrote:
> I just upgraded all of my myth boxes last night, including a "dist
> upgrade" from 8.04 to 9.04 to 9.10.  I have an MCE USB IR receiver, which
> Mythbuntu successfully seems to have recognized as having changed from
> mceusb2 to mceusb, but I can't confirm that it works, because my kids have
> lost the remote - I'm sure it'll turn up eventually, but you know how that
> goes...
> 
> Anyway, usually when the remote gets lost by the kids, we use a usb
> keyboard as a temporary remote.  This was the situation prior to the
> upgrade.  After the upgrade, mythfrontend does not respond to the keyboard
> at all.  I can confirm that the keyboard is recognized by the OS (if I go
> into a terminal, it works anyway) but no amount of keyboard pounding gets
> mythfrontend to do anything.
> 
> Anyone seen this?  Any ideas on where to start looking?
> 
> Possibly unrelated, but when I first rebooted after the 9.10 upgrade, my
> network adapter was in a "disconnected" state and had to be turned on
> manually in order to get network connectivity.
> 
Check the CMOS battery? if it's a little old, your backup config may be losing 
the odd bit. If your network suddenly becomes unavailable, this would suggest 
that other things might change as well.

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Mike Perkins