Tuesday, October 22, 2013

No keyboard (doesn't work) after upgrading from Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10

After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10 I couldn't enter my password to decrypt my drive. It looks like this is an issue with 3.11 kernel.

The solution is as follows:
1) hold shift when starting the computer
2) when grub loads choose an older kernel (for me it was 3.8)
3) run "sudo gedit /etc/initramfs-tools/modules"
4) add the line "ohci_pci"
5) save the file
6) run "sudo update-initramfs -u"
7) reboot
8) to verify you are running the latest kernel run "uname -r"