On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 09:16 +0100, ael wrote: > Package: linux-image-2.6-686 > Version: 2.6.32+25 > Severity: important > > With Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 & Linux 2.6.32-3-686, at least, on this Aspire One > Netbook, the system frequently boots into a state in which the keyboard does > not respond. The mouse (Synaptics touchpad) is still active, and as far as I can > tell everything else is working. My only recourse is to hit the reset button. > > So this is nondeterministic, and so probably some sort of race? I *think* that > it happens more frequently if I happen to touch the ps/2 touchpad during boot, but > it definitely does still happen when I keep my hands well away during boot. > > Looking at /var/log/messages, this seem to be correlated with the > following message: > Apr 6 09:58:56 elf kernel: [ 4.789882] > atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access > hardware directly. > > So far as I can tell, this sort of message only appears when the kb is disabled. > Presumably, this interrupt is not really spurious, thus not serviced > and the kb controller waits forever for the keystoke to be handled?? Just guessing :-( [...] Please report this upstream at <https://bugzilla.kernel.org> under product 'Drivers', component 'Input Devices'. Let us know the bug number so we can track it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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