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["dave@xxxxxxxx" <dave@xxxxxxxx>]

this may be a vmware issue, details here;
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1515622#1515622

I had similar problem in that the mouse worked on the gdm login screen
but the keyboard did not. I was able to login using the on-screen
keyboard.

I enabled the on-screen keyboard via the universal access preferences,
(little man-in-circle button on gdm screen). Also had to reboot to get
the keyboard to display properly. Once logged in the regular keyboard
worked fine.

I found the :0-greeter.log file in /var/log/gdm had errors complaining about not find symbols for "U.S. English" keyboard layout in us keyboard file. A little grepping later finds "U.S. English" is set in /etc/default/console-setup.
<from original file>
XKBMODEL="SKIP"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT="U.S. English"
XKBOPTIONS=""

<changed to this, matching other linux installs>
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

Reboot and keyboard now works at login. Don't know if this is VMware's
or Ubuntu's fault during install, since I used the auto install process
in Workstation 7. Sounds like it could be VMware related as a manual
install seems to avoid this.

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gdm does not take input on login
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550188
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