Bug#818241: brltty: Unstable brltty

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Jean-Philippe MENGUAL, on Mon 14 Mar 2016 23:59:15 +0100, wrote:
> I updated my testing, and now use 5.3.1-1+b1 (instead of 5.3.1-1).

You forgot to mention explicitly that you tried to downgrade to 5.3.1-1
again, and then it did work fine, so the culprit is really the
5.3.1-1+b1 version.

> At boot, brltty doesn't connect to the braille display. I need to kill it
> then restarting it in commandline.

Did you get that issue with 5.3.1-1?

> Then, the connection works, but brltty, randomly but often, sqops and restarts.
> It doesn't stop xbrlapi, run in my X session. But the braille keyboard (and
> keyboard of all display) a!e "suspended", brltty displays "Stopping brltty",
> then "BRLTTY 5.3.1 rev BRLTTY 5.3.1-1" and stop again.

Could you check whether the pid of the brltty process has changed?

> Ready to help debugging. -ldebug should be enough? >>a_file? Another way to have
> logs?

logs are usually ending up in /var/log/daemon.log

Samuel