[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#523449: acpid fails to open input layer

[Julien Cristau]

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 13:02 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> Package: acpid
> Version: 1.0.8-7
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I updated today my i386 HP Compaq 6715s notebook and my amd64 workstation again
> to the as-is unstable status.
> 
> My workstation is still working well, but acpid reports on booting:
> Can not open input layer
> 
> And yeah that's true. I can not move my mouse or enter anything about my keyboard
> (like password, switching to a VT etc.).
> 
> It definitly breaks my laptop system, so on critical..

It definitely doesn't sound like an acpid bug...  You'll need to provide
more information, dmesg would be a start.

Cheers,
Julien