[SOLVED] wmii ignores all keyboard input

I'm trying to use wmii on my new arch install. No matter which of the wmiircs I use, it never accepts any keyboard input to switch tags, open windows or anything else. The clock is correctly updated and if I open a window using DISPLAY=:1 from another terminal, I can move it around with the mouse. Evilwm is working fine and the only error in Xorg.0.log is related to fbdev. Does anyone have any idea what might be going wrong here?
EDIT: Just a major PEBKAC. I forgot that Win is the new default modkey and wmii didn't ask me because xmessage wasn't installed.
Last edited by A.W.A.M (2011-03-12 09:25:52)

Anyone have any ideas? I tried reinstalling base and base-devel through pacman...still no relief.... This is bizarre.
EDIT: It's getting worse. System now hangs on boot at "Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed." Things are rapidly going downhill.
EDIT: No booting due to Udev fixed my booting without acpi. I rebooted into another linux distro to poke around in /var/log/pacman.log for a bit to see if I could find the offending update. Nothing seemed really suspicious, except for the update to "linux-api-headers." (Anything with "headers" is suspicious. So, I decided I would boot back into Arch and try to downgrade that package. After booting back into Arch, I see that the problem has disappeared...so...I dunno what to say...I have no idea what/how this got fixed, or how I (yes, let's be honest here...it must be "I") broke it in the first place.
Last edited by lasu1 (2010-03-28 00:44:43)

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