Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

[Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:23:09 -0600
Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:

> Joe Riel wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:41:30 -0800
> > Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:17:32 +0000 (UTC)
> >> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:21:03 -0800, Joe Riel wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:44:38 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón wrote:
> >>>>> OTOH, are you sure there is no information/warning about the
> >>>>> lock in "/ var/log/Xorg.0.log"?
> >>>> I'm not sure .  Nothing jumped out at me, but I'm clueless. There
> >>>> is this:
> >>>>
> >>>> (II) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so failed
> >>>> (/usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No
> >>>> such file or directory)
> >>>>
> >>>> Google search indicates that this isn't an issue (as does the
> >>>> II). Attached is the entire Xorg.0.log.old.
> >>> Thanks... yup, I see something suspicious (or maybe not) at the
> >>> end of the file:
> >>>
> >>> ***
> >>> (II) Power Button: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
> >>> (II) Power Button: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
> >>> (II) UVC Camera (046d:09a1): Device reopened after 1 attempts.
> >>> (II) Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM):
> >>> Device reopened after 1 attempts. (II) AT Translated Set 2
> >>> keyboard: Device reopened after 1 attempts. (II) Macintosh mouse
> >>> button emulation: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
> >>>
> >>> (II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Close
> >>> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> >>> (II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Close
> >>> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> >>> (II) Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM): Close
> >>>
> >>> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> >>> (II) UVC Camera (046d:09a1): Close
> >>> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> >>> (II) Power Button: Close
> >>> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> >>> (II) Power Button: Close
> >>> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> >>> ***
> >>>
> >>> "evdev" module is unloaded for no apparent reason but not sure if 
> >>> this a normal/common log.
> >> To check this, I just restarted the machine and compared the
> >> Xorg.0.log.old file created with the one following a lockup
> >> (and subsequent restart).  The unloading of evdev appears normal,
> >> however, what is not in the "normal" restart log are the lines
> >>
> >>> (II) Power Button: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
> >> ...
> >>> Device reopened after 1 attempts.
> >> Any idea what that might indicate?  
> > 
> > Those messages appear benign.  That is the result of switching to a
> > virtual terminal and then back to X.  That action does not trigger
> > the keyboard lockup.
> > 
> 
> Interesting. How did you figure that out?

tail -f /var/log/Xorg.0.log

then switched to VT1, then back to X (VT7).
When I came back to X, I could see the log
file being updated.  My tentative conclusion
is that that is normal behavior of X.  
Do you see anything similar?


-- 
Joe Riel