Computer boots fine but without mouse or keyboard

[Ingenuitas]

Isadora. I have tried booting into recovery mode and repaired broken packages, make free space, update grub, and booted into failsafe graphics mode. Everything I try is same results: computer boots normally and nothing looks wrong until you put your hand on the mouse and try to move the cursor and find out you don't have a mouse! So you press Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the shutdown menu and you find out- you don't have a keyboard either!

[DrHu]

Trobleshooting 101

• Physical connections on the ports

--make sure the physical connections work, maybe try with another OS or the CD

You can also set the BIOS to stop on all errors, which will tell you whether or not the keyboard and mouse are being detected..
--of course to do that the keyboard has to initially work

So, if it does and you still have problems, some more context data might help:
--how you installed the OS, and did you note any issues while installing ?

[Ingenuitas]

I have booted with a LiveCD and when I do this, I have mouse/keyboard. This isn't a new install. I have been running Gloria/Helena on this machine and recently upgraded to Isadora.

[Ingenuitas]

I booted into recovery mode and checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log and found this:
(II)LoadModule: kbd
(WW)Warning, couldn't open module kbd
(II)UnloadModule "kbd"
(EE)Failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0)

[Ingenuitas]

Trobleshooting 101

• Physical connections on the ports

--make sure the physical connections work, maybe try with another OS or the CD

You can also set the BIOS to stop on all errors, which will tell you whether or not the keyboard and mouse are being detected..
--of course to do that the keyboard has to initially work

So, if it does and you still have problems, some more context data might help:
--how you installed the OS, and did you note any issues while installing ?

Booting from LiveCD, mouse and keyboard work
BIOS finds mouse and keyboard
This isn't a new install, I have been using Felicia/Gloria/Helena/Isadora. Upgraded to Isadora via repositories when it was released. It was working fine for days, re-booted and lost mouse/keyboard. I have gotten mouse back, but still no keyboard. I'm thinking this: should I just go ahead and re-install from LiveCD? I backed everything up on a separate drive before I upgraded to Isadora.