To give this thread some closure, and for those of us that are somewhat Linux challenged, I am posting my resolution.

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, the error logs indicated that the keyboard and mouse modules were not loading. In all the years I have been using LinHES (and KnoppMyth, for that matter), I had never had this happen. I am still not sure why they even disappeared.

At any rate, my googling about produced this: To add the keyboard and mouse modules back in, use the following scripts:



This re-installs the necessary modules for the keyboard and mouse.