[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#453755: Bug#453755: some console keystrokes ignored when dbus-launch is running

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 05:17:53PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote:
> Package: dbus
> Version: 1.1.2-1
> Severity: important
> 
> When I first boot up the system, about 40% of the keystrokes on the console
> are ignored, like: if I type "startx" and hit enter, I'll see "sart" or
> somesuch.  In that same case, typing "sttartxx" and enter probably would have
> worked.  The enter key is also affected, so maybe I'd have had to hit it
> twice.

What dbus process are running after you have booted? Can you try to stop hal
and see if that changes anything ?

> This affects the username and password prompts too, so I usually cannot
> manage to log in at the console at all after booting.


> This does not happen in X and luckily a display manager is enabled, so I can
> log in there.
> 
> In X, I then kill the dbus-launch process, which fixes the problem.  I have
> this problem with dbus 1.1.1-3 also.

dbus-launch is only started when you log into X.. So that shouldn't influence
anything on the console...

  Sjoerd
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