Keyboard and Mouse input issuess after upgrading to 16.10

Question

Today I upgraded from a Ubuntu 16.04.2 to Ubuntu 16.10 and after the upgrade is completed and the system is rebooted, Ubuntu just freezes in the LightDM login screen. I doesn't takes any input from the keyboard and touchpad or usb keyboard and usb mouse. I tried my dedicated power button to restart my laptop but it also didn't worked. I didn't have had any problem with Ubuntu before as my Dell laptop came with a Ubuntu pre-installed and my hardware support for Ubuntu is great. Also with this upgrade I noticed that this upgrade didn't tried to install the 16.10 kernel. I have already removed 16.04.2's 4.8 kernel in favor of Xanmod's custom 4.10 kernel and usually upgrades would install the new kernel but this it didn't. Please tell me a way to fix this issue without reinstalling Ubuntu

Solution

This problem can only be solved in the LiveCD. After booting to LiveCD, then chroot into the Ubuntu installation by following these steps here.. You will also need to use the OpenDNS nameservers as the default nameserver can't be asscessed via chroot.

Then follow these steps:

apt full-upgrade -y
apt install -y ubuntu-desktop

This will fix the X-Server stack. Reboot and you will have a working desktop

Comments

[Noah Passalacqua]

didnt work. just says newest version installed