[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] xserver-xorg-core: input devices no longer detected

[Brian Paterni]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 07:41:46PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Peculiar.  I ran into similar symptoms (mouse and keyboard no longer
> working in X after a very recent routine upgrade with the experimental
> suite enabled), too.  No udev upgrade involved.  Downgrading sysvinit
> and initscripts to the version in sid and rebooting got the mouse and
> keyboard working again.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan

Aha! I only downgraded sysvinit and sysvinit-utils. With
initscripts=2.88dsf-22.1, keyboard and mouse are functional once again.

Whatever is wrong, it seems to originate in initscripts