Surprisingly, this issue got fixed automatically while I was trying to troubleshoot it. The following steps seems to have fixed it for me.<br><br>(1) Removed ~/.gconf/desktop/%gconf.xml using tty1 (Ctrl + Alt + F1).<br><br>
susam@nifty:~/.gconf/desktop$ mv %gconf.xml %gconf.xml-backup<br><br>(2) Logged into GNOME desktop as 'susam'. After logging in, keyboard input worked.<br><br>(3) Logged out of GNOME desktop and returned to tty1 (Ctrl + Alt + F1).<br>
<br>(4) Restored the original %gconf.xml<br><br> susam@nifty:~/.gconf/desktop$ mv %gconf.xml-backup %gconf.xml<br><br>(5) Logged into GNOME desktop as 'susam'. Surprise! Keyboard input worked fine again!<br><br>
In other words, I could not really establish what caused the problem and what fixed it. Anyone has a clue?<br><br>Regards,<br>Susam Pal<br><br>