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I played Skyrim via Wine, then it started lagging so hard that I rebooted computer holding Power button. Then, when I turned it on, on a login page keyboard and mouse were working. I typed password, and after logging in noticed that keyboard and mouse are not working. I tried to reboot (same situation), tried recovery mode. Nothing worked. What I need to do? Ubuntu 18.04

Mouvre
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If you can type on the login screen, then there should be a way to workable shell.

This article has more on it.

From the description of the error, I would doublecheck for hardware problems, like e.g. a dying SSD. I would look for I/O errors in system logs.

If there are indeed signs of significant disk problems, then, before anything else, I would backup all important documents/files/etc from the disk, while being booted from a live USB.

After important files are backed up, I would also consider a filesystem check and possibly repair with fsck (on the unmounted / partition), again, from a live USB.

Then, regarding the keyboard / mouse:

Recently I have seen a few places that recommended

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-all

or

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-input-all

read these: Keyboard and mouse unresponsive after suspend,

and the aforementioned article.

I have no personal experience with this procedure, just offering for consideration.

Finally, regarding "rebooted computer holding Power button", I recommend googling and learning how to reboot with the "REISUB" method. It's not always effective, but when it is, it's nicer on the (file)system.

Levente
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  • Thanks for the answer, but how should I enter the commands if my keyboard and mouse are dead? – Mouvre Dec 24 '20 at 10:14
  • Re-read the first two lines of my answer. Your inputs seem to not work after the graphical interface loaded; but before they do. Therefore, you should be able to navigate to a command line interface (not the graphical), where you can issue commands. This has more detailed info: https://askubuntu.com/a/859640/1157519 – Levente Dec 24 '20 at 10:32
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    Also this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode | Get to grub menu > pick advanced options for Ubuntu > pick recovery mode > pick 'drop to root shell' > follow the instructions, if any. – Levente Dec 24 '20 at 10:44
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To complete the answer provided by Levente, the following commands may come in handy:

1. Enable a disabled input device

  • Get the ids of the devices: xinput --list
  • Enable the device with id=n: xinput enable n

2. Remove/add modules to Linux kernel

  • Remove touchpad driver: modprobe -r psmouse
  • Add it again: modprobe psmouse
  • For keyboard, I think you must use atkbd instead of psmouse

NOTE that you need to run the commands as super user, I mean, sudo.

Fardo
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