Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:49:53 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
> Received Sat 18 Apr 2009 3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
[...]
> > > udev 0.125-7
> >
> > You should upgrade udev to version 0.125-7+lenny1 (security.debian.org).
> >
> > > xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.2-10
> >
> > Rmadison tells me that the current version of this package for Lenny is
> > 2:1.4.2-10.lenny1. I would try to upgrade to that.
> >
> > Other than those two packages, I did not see anything unusual your list.
>
> I have upgrade both. No change in the X/kbd behaviour
>
> > > > Another thing to check is which processes are using files in
> > > > /dev/input/. Ideally, this check should be done after X has started.
> > > > Using CTRL-ALT-Fn does not work for you, but you could use a simple
> > > > ~/.xinitrc that runs "sudo chvt 1" in an xterm, which would return you
> > > > to the text terminal. (You have to configure your system to allow your
> > > > user to run sudo with this command without password.) Then I would like
> > > > to the output of:
> > > >
> > > > lsof /dev/input/*
>
> I am getting:
>
> COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
> hald-addo 4357 root 4r CHR 13,69 5819 /dev/input/event5
> hald-addo 4357 root 5w CHR 13,68 5772 /dev/input/event4
> hald-addo 4357 root 6r CHR 13,67 5654 /dev/input/event3
> hald-addo 4357 root 7r CHR 13,66 5620 /dev/input/event2
There should be some input devices opened by Xorg. Please run this
command instead (as root with X started):
lsof $(find /dev/input/)
> > Another thing to check is if certain processes are running:
> >
> > ps -ef | grep -E 'X|hal|dbus|udev'
[ snip: all normal, except that dbus is not running ]
Did you run this in single user mode, or did you deliberately kill dbus?
> > > Note that I am booting single user mode to do this, so it is logging
> > > in as root and running startx as root. I modified the .xinitrc to chvt
> > > 1 and to then xterm. I ran lsof on the console.
> >
> > I think it would be better to do further tests in the normal runlevel.
> > I would temporarily uninstall or at least disable [xkg]dm to allow you
> > to log in at the normal tty prompt.
>
> Yes - now in user land.
Does "now" encompass all the output that you posted in your last
message?
Does the keyboard work in Xorg if you boot from a Debian Lenny live CD
(http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/)?
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