[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#584203: acpi-fakekey: fails to start at boot

[Michael Meskes]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 04:57:20AM -0400, Michel wrote:
> At boot time I get the following message:
> 
> 'failed (Could not start /usr/sbin/acpi_fakekeyd).'
> 
> The keys for volume up/down and mute work, but does not control
> the volume up/down and mute on alsamixer like before. 
> 
> Seems similar to #577603, but I have no messages 
> like that in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, from #577603: 
> 
> 'ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device: Dropping event due to full que'
> 
> Even after manually stopping and starting with 'invoke-rc.d acpi-fakekey'
> the same thing still happens. This is on a Thinkpad T23.

Do you still see the problem with 0.136-4 in unstable? If so could you please
start /usr/sbin/acpi_fakekeyd manually under strace to see what happens? It
might also be helpful to compile acpi-fakekey with debugging enabled and run it
under gdb. I haven't seen this problem before.

Michael
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