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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 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).

Hmm, found it and it is a very different issue, related to udevadm
settle and event filtering.  It is unlikely to be related to this
problem.

> 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?

That's still a question worth considering.

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