[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#669949: Bug#669949: sysvinit: Break X11: no more mouse and keyboard

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2012, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:15:29AM +0200, valette wrote:
> > After upgrade, X11 does not report any keybord or mouse on my laptop. If I plug a USB mouse its detected. 
> > If the USB mouse is plugged before X starts its not detected either. Probably related to hal/udev but...
> 
> I'm not sure.  I'm seeing the same thing; but it's fine until the
> start of X.  However, in my case the mouse and keyboard are plugged
> into a USB hub on my monitor, and unplugging and reconnecting the
> hub to the main system results in them working again.
> 
> > NB: I modified the /etc/defalt/tmpfs to get /tmp as a normal fs.
> 
> Does this alter the behaviour at all?
> 
> 
> I can't see what has changed here that could affect this, so a bit
> more information would be appreciated if possible.  I'm not sure
> how USB device availability is related to /tmp, but hopefully some
> more investigation will help here.

It is related to /dev, which is a tmpfs.  If anything messes with /dev, the
device node will be lost (and X won't find it), but a hotplug will recreate
it.

So, is /dev alright?

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