I had a very similar problem when I upgraded my virtual machine to Ubuntu 16.10. My mouse and keyboard worked fine until I upgraded to 16.10. The virtual machine would boot just fine, but I had no cursor and no ability to click or type anything. My mouse was being captured by the VM, but not working at all. Well I did realize I had the ability to hold shift at boot to bring up the GRUB menu, so the virtual box was working fine! I figured the issue must be with Xorg. I was able to bring up a root shell and uninstall Xorg. Apt was having issues updating packages since it could not resolve name servers. This somehow caused Xorg to not come up at boot, which is when I also confirmed that bash was also working fine.
TL;DR: Uninstalling and reinstalling Xorg has fixed my issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630245 Title: after starting ubuntu 16.10 -- no keyboard, no mouse Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in linux source package in Yakkety: Incomplete Bug description: After starting Ubuntu 16.10 keyboard and mouse are dead. Since it works with an older kernel but not with the latest one, I'd assume the newer kernel does not initialize the devices the right way. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: systemd 231-9git1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9136.55-generic 4.4.16 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9136-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Oct 4 15:27:52 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-12 (1391 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120817.3) Lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0e0f:0002 VMware, Inc. Virtual USB Hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0e0f:0003 VMware, Inc. Virtual Mouse Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub MachineType: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform ProcEnviron: TERM=screen PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.4.0-9136-generic root=/dev/mapper/test--tps--ubuntu--muc-root ro vga=789 consoleblank=0 SourcePackage: systemd UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2013-02-11 (1330 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 07/02/2015 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD dmi.bios.version: 6.00 dmi.board.name: 440BX Desktop Reference Platform dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation dmi.board.version: None dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 1 dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvr6.00:bd07/02/2015:svnVMware,Inc.:pnVMwareVirtualPlatform:pvrNone:rvnIntelCorporation:rn440BXDesktopReferencePlatform:rvrNone:cvnNoEnclosure:ct1:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: VMware Virtual Platform dmi.product.version: None dmi.sys.vendor: VMware, Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1630245/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
