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

[Felipe Sateler]

On 1 December 2015 at 10:49, Brian Potkin <claremont102 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Upstream claims the problem is either X or the graphics driver:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2061

(Not exactly the same reproducer, but similar).

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler