Re: xdm suddenly stopped

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

"Arvind Marathe" <arvind@mbu.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I had a debian etch running on my system for the past few months.
> Today the system was working fine, i was out for a while for tea,
> when i came back, it had hanged and when i force-rebooted it after
> everything else failed, x-window-system does not start at all. I had
> put runlevel 5, but it cannot go to that. Attached below is
> the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file on startx command. Can somebody point
> out what suddenly went wrong after running smoothly for several
> months?

[snip]

> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 	No such file or directory.
> (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
> (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
> (WW) No core pointer registered
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type:
> KEYBOARD) xkb_keycodes             { include
> "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" }; xkb_types                { include
> "complete" }; xkb_compatibility        { include "complete" };
>     xkb_symbols              { include "pc(pc105)+us" };
>     xkb_geometry             { include "pc(pc104)" };
> No core pointer
> 
> Fatal server error:
> failed to initialize core devices

It seems like something happened to your mouse (do you have a
cat? :) ). Check cables and try replacing it with a known good mouse.

Regards,
Andrei
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