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I installed and updated antix, everything worked perfectly but after the restart I can not go in because the keyboard does not write, no key works and not even the touchpad.

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Which version did you install? Which repos did you choose?

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17.3.1 della Stretch

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della?

The update that might have caused a problem is eudev.

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Yes, repo stretch 32 bit version. I think so too, how can I solve it? useless to reinstall if I then update and do not read the keyboard at login

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I have the same problem. Updated Antix17 32bit, via Synaptic.
System is installed on harddrive.
All went well. But on reboot, the username / password cannot be entered.

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If, as was suggested, the eudev update is the culprit, how does one set about to fix it?

I can boot up with Antix17 on USB stick. But, then what?
Is it possible to run Synaptic or apt (to rollback to an older version of eudev) to affect the harddrive while running from the live USB stick?
If not, perhaps a directory on the harddrive can be copied over with files from the USB system? (But the USB has not been updated for quite awhile.)

I do have Antix17 installed on another computer, which I had not yet updated. Prior to updating the one, they were both at the same update level. So, files could be copied from that I suppose. Or, I could just overwrite the whole thing with an install of the working system.

Before I start experimenting, any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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Can you use the keyboard at all? For example, at your boot menu can you type number 3 and boot to non X environment and use the keyboard?

I’m not 100% sure that eudev is the cause.

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You could use a live usb/cd and chroot into the / partition of your install.

chroot

Then first try

update-initramfs -t -u -k all

Then see if it fixes it.

If not download the 3 debs in this link eudev debs, and copy them to / folder of your install.

Then boot live media, chroot (as above) into the install and

dpkg -i *.deb

will install the previous eudev debs.

For good measure do the initramfs-update again.

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will there be a correct ISO?

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0day wrote:

will there be a correct ISO?

To correct what? That is what we are trying to find out.

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I have removed the new 3.7 eudev packages from the antiX stretch/main repo so any new install of antiX-17.3.1 should not upgrade eudev.

(assuming it was eudev that causes the breakage – I don’t know since it didn’t break my 32 bit install and frugal install)

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this bug, the last update was just eudev from synaptic. It happened on 2 laptops, on reboot it does not write user & password. Can i reinstall It with testing repo?

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No.

As I posted, the new eudev has been removed from our stretch repo (but not form our testing and sid ones).

You could run live the latest 17.3.1 and make sure the antiX repo is set to the default one (Canada) -it says Default in repo-manager.
Then,before installation, in a root terminal, do apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.

Check to see that eudev does NOT get updated.

Then install.

If you find that the keyboard doesn’t work then it is something other than eudev causing the problem.

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I reinstalled, the problem lies in the residual configuration of udev that I had deleted, should I leave udev in the remaining configuration?

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