Have you tried changing the battery? It could have coincidentally chosen that
time to die.

First thing I did in both mouse and keyboard

Just to verify if it's the wireless driver at fault or the upgrade
itself can you try a wired keyboard / mouse to check whether they work
correctly ?

Will do.... I just have to find an extra!

I am at a loss...was not able to duplicate the issue with wired keyboard
/ mouse. It is so anouying to take so much extra time to get copy and
paste to work....the issue is very random as sometimes it works and
sometimes not...

Sadly it work just fine before upgrade...I may have to downgrade to save
my sanity

MG> I am at a loss...was not able to duplicate the issue with wired
MG> keyboard / mouse.

Do you mean Copy/Paste worked fine using the wired mouse and keyboard.
If so then the issue is with the driver for the wireless receiver so
what model number of MicroSoft wireless keyboard/mouse do you have ?

It is a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 1000 model #1356 and the mouse that
goes with it Microsoft wireless Optical Mouse 2000, It also has a Ms
Wireless Desktop receiver 3.1 model 1028

Nothing jumps out at me when doing searches on that so the next thing
to determine is whether it's the Lucid to Maverick update or Maverick
itself at fault. To do this you'll need to download the Maverick ISO
and create a CD then boot up with that. Select the 'Try Ubuntu' option
and when you get to the desktop check whether your wireless keyboard
works correctly or not.

If it work using the Live CD then the issue is with the actual update
from Lucid and as has been posted many times updates can be *iffy* no
matter which OS we are talking about !!

FWIW for a system that's needed daily I'd recommend sticking with the
10.04 LTS and leave cutting edge to either a second system or perhaps
a virtual machine ( using Virtual Box or similar ) to see what's being
developed.

An update... I did do a test off the live cd and everything works
great...so the issue is with the new version 10.10... Too bad have have
been batting 100 doing updates this is the first buggy one for me...

Now is there a place to "report" the bug or find a fix...or am I left
with wiping my hard drive and
re-installing?

If the 10.10 Live CD worked then the problem is with the update from
10.04 and in such a case it's not really a 'bug' in 10.10 but this
whole issue of updating OS versions. So the options are to wipe and
install 10.04LTS again then staying with it or going for a clean
install of 10.10 and crossing fingers every six months when the next
update appears.

As has been said, creating a separate /home partition means you can
clean install without losing data but there's still the necessity of
updating and installing the programs you use above the 'standard' mix
that's supplied.

I understand you can create a script file which has all your existing
software packages listed and that can be applied after a clean install
to input everything in one go so that's another angle to consider.

All depends how much time you are willing to devote to the 6 monthly
update cycle - if the answer is 'not much' then perhaps staying with
the 10.04LTS is the way ?

Sorry I did not clarify....it was the live 10.04 that worked fine....it
would still be nice to fix it rather than hours of a clean install.....

To be really sure it would be best using the 10.10 Live CD and
then you'd know if it was just some incompatibility with it or the
upgrade from 10.04 ( chances are it will also work just fine but until
you check you won't actually know ).

Yes it would always be nice to fix a bad upgrade but apart from the
difficulty of finding out exactly what it is that's awry there's no
point even trying in your case if 10.10 doesn't work anyway !!!

FWIW - Badly applied OS updates have sent computing experts to the
funny farm trying to unravel and in reality the clean install is the
least hassle way overall. You could spend days or weeks fixing one bug
only to find something else rears it's head later ... ad infinitum


BTW - I discovered that the alternate install CD's have an option to
recover a broken install ( well at least the 10.04 LTS one does ). So
might be worth a shot doing a repair with the 10.10 Alternate Install
?

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