[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#669949: Bug#669949: sysvinit: Break X11: no more mouse and keyboard

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2012, Roger Leigh wrote:
> I'm not sure that this is definitely a sysvinit issue.  The mouse
> and keyboard are entirely functional right up until X11 starts up.

This may well be a red herring, but you're all using the latest 3.2
kernel, aren't you?  A Debian user went straight to LKML with an udev
issue related to the later 3.2 kernels (which was a _lot_ worse than
just input devices disappearing, I think.  I will have to hunt down that
message).

It is not impossible that an interaction of the latest sysvinit with the
later 3.2 kernels is causing problems if we changed _anything_ that has
direct interaction with the kernel (such as an ioctl, signal masks...)
in the latest sysvinit that could trigger a kernel issue.

Did we?

Can anyone that is reproducing this bug try an older kernel (preferably
not the latest 3.0, as all longterm kernels are somewhat sync'd and if
something caused a regression in 3.2-stable, changes are high it is
already in 3.0-stable too).

> I've tested this in single user mode, running the init scripts by
> hand.  It's all working perfectly up until kdm/gdm starts, and it
> can be triggered by hand with xinit.
> 
> All of the tmpfses, including /dev, are mounted and functional.

X.org makes use of several input-layer features/ioctls/etc that very
few/no other programs would during boot.

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  Henrique Holschuh