Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 11:30pm +1000 from Thorny:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:44:42 +1000, Graham Williams posted:
>
> > Received Thu 09 Apr 2009 9:12pm +1000 from Thorny:
> >> On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted:
> >>
> >> > Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision
> >> > 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well,
> >> > but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the
> >> > screen resolution changing - I can't login!
> >> >
> >> > After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going
> >> > on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The
> >> > simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user mode.
> >> > Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition is
> >> > also just fine.
> >> >
> >> > I've created a .xinitrc which only runs xev so I can see what keys it
> >> > is seeing. When I run with video driver as "nv" (in
> >> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf) xev is not seeing any keyboard activity. Changing
> >> > to "vga" at least I can see that xev gets the keystrokes (but the
> >> > screen is not usable). Changing to "vesa" exhibits the same behaviour
> >> > as "nv" - that is, no keys reported by xev, and any key press seems to
> >> > change the screen resolution.
> >> >
> >> > With the "nv" driver (xserver-xorg-video-nv) I can seeverything on the
> >> > screen. Mouse and menus work. Ctl-Alt-Backspace works (to terminate
> >> > X11). But most other keys simple cause this screen resolution change.
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas?
> >>
> >> When you upgraded from etch to lenny did you follow the release notes
> >> for upgrading?
> >> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes If not, have a look
> >> now and see if anything you did might have caused trouble, and then
> >> determine if there is any way you can back out gracefully and redo
> >> things.
> >
> > Thanks Thorny. Yes I did follow the release notes in upgrading and have
> > been trawling through the upgrade-lenny.script file and my wajig log for
> > clues. Trying to purge various X and friends and reinstalling (and trying
> > to stay with stable rather than testing or sid because this is a test
> > upgrade for a bunch of servers deployed in production)..... no luck yet.
> >
>
> "Trying to stay with stable rather than..." Were you trying to do a
> dist-upgrade with "testing" and "unstable" repositories in your sources
> list? You would probably be better advised to switch to codename, lenny in
> your sources list and/or not have testing or unstable available. Perhaps I
> misunderstood what you wrote but you may now have a mixed system which
> might not be trivial to recover from. Are you sure you followed the
> release notes correctly.
There is no testing/unstable. Install done from DVD (5.0.0) whilst
server was standalone. The only entries in sources.list are the 5
DVDs. I followed the release notes carefully, and used the "script"
command to record the process.
Thanks,
Graham
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