Bug#806256: libpam-systemd: log out from a TTY and your X input devices get lost!

[Brian Potkin]

On Mon 30 Nov 2015 at 23:04:37 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:

> I am more and more suspecting that this issue is ultimately caused by
> systemd-logind / libpam-systemd...

I have installed Jessie without any tasks. The minimum for a working X
on this machine is xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. xserver-xorg-input-evdev,
xserver-xorg and xinit. libpam-systemd and dbus are not installed with
this arrangement,

The behaviour is similar to that on unstable when startx is on tty1 and
the user logs in and out of tty2, The one big difference is that X does
not shut down when the tty1 screen is displayed. Initially, the mouse and
keyboard function but CTRL+ALT+F1 results in them not working.

With libpam-systemd and dbus the behaviour is broadly similar.

The switching from one terminal to another only appears to occur when X
is on tty1. Occasionally it switches to tty1 and back to a login prompt
on tty2.

Regards,

Brian.