My keyboard and mouse do not work once my Ubuntu 9.4 laptop boots up. 
I'm sure this problem can be traced back to my experimentation with lirc 
last night.

I booted to recovery mode and disabled everything lirc, using 
update-rc.d -f lirc remove

I still cannot access my desktop with the built in or external keyboard. 
Both work fine prior to the laptop booting up fully.


Just for good measure I reconfigured X, but that did not help.


Any ideas what to look for?