No keyboard anymore (after uninstalling okboard)

Bug Reports
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REPRODUCIBILITY: Remove OKboard, after that no normal keyboard anymore.
OS VERSION: 5.0.0.78
HARDWARE: Xperia 10 III
UI LANGUAGE: Dutch
REGRESSION:

DESCRIPTION:

PRECONDITIONS:

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. Remove OKboard

  2. No keyboard appears anymore whenever one needs to input text.

  3. Rebooting several times doesn’t help.

EXPECTED RESULT: A keyboard to appear to enter text

ACTUAL RESULT: No keyboard appears - makes the phone useless

MODIFICATIONS: I have patches installed but deactivated them to be ready for the big update.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

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Hello.

I went through ssh in .config and backed up and deleted /okboard and edited /maliit/server.conf which was refering to ok board. I left that file & folder, but deleted its content.

Keyboard is back - problem solved. I can use my phone again!

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So there were no other keyboards activated under Keyboards?
Normally this should be possible without a keyboard by selecting/enabling another keyboard layout there.

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No, not if you mean from Settings > Text input.

My fix was to just reinstall OKBoard, I only deleted it to free up space for the update. @tvdjolla seems to have found the cause.

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So tvdjolla could mark his entry as solution.

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For anyone else getting caught out by this, you could also edit the mailit/server.conf file in the Terminal app as it has its own keyboard that remains unaffected by this

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I’m not convinced that “i installed a unsupported 3rd-party app, uninstalled it, and my phone broke” is a legitimate bug report on the OS.

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Well, I get it, but maliit could be made more resilient against invalid configuration.

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At the time of reporting, I had no clue what was happening … I was not complaining, just reporting.