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

[Michel]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 08:26, Michael Meskes <meskes at debian.org> wrote:
> 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


After installing 0.136-4, it still fails at boot with the same
message. But I now
see this message above, which did not show before:

'Starting acpi_fakekey daemon...open device: No such file or directory'

Can now manually start with: /usr/sbin/acpi_fakekeyd, acpi_fakekeyd
and invoke acpi_fakekeyd start.

'Starting acpi_fakekey daemon...[time] input: ACPI Virtual Keyboard
Device as /devices/virtual/input/input8 done.'

But still does not control alsamixer like it did before.

Thanks,

Michel