keyboard problems

Hi all,

I have a raspberrypi running kodi 16. Whenever I bring up the onscreen keyboard I try to input text using my USB keyboard and it doesn’t work.

To clarify, the keyboard does work to control the interface, up/down/left/right etc. and I can use the keyboard to navigate around the on screen keyboard to slowly type. But I can’t just outright type.

When I was on kodi 14 the keyboard did fully work.

If it helps, when I try typing an ‘s’ on the on screen keyboard (while on a text input form field) it prompts me to shutdown.

Does anyone know what’s wrong or are able to advise where to prod and poke?

many thanks