Re: [SOLUTION?] Re: No input devices in wheezy
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 11:10 +0100, AG wrote:
> On 12/06/11 19:34, AG wrote:
> > My keyboard works fine at the GRUB screen, enabling me to select the
> > kernel to boot. However, at gdm3 (and kdm as well now as the
> > default), neither mouse nor keyboard works.
> >
> > Doing a hard reboot, I can boot into recovery mode and from there
> > startx and as root, keyboard and mouse work fine. But, logging out as
> > root and coming back to the login screen, again input devices are frozen.
> >
> > Research from the web seems to suggest this is a known bug, but the
> > resolutions are confusing: some suggest rm -fr /run but that doesn't
> > work for me; others suggest it is something to do with udev, whilst
> > others think it has something to do with xorg.conf. So far, the only
> > workarounds seem to be hacks that work for some but not for others.
> > There do seem to be a number of bugs reported on this already.
> >
> > I am currently using my user account, but had to get into it via
> > recovery mode, going to root and su to my user account. This seems to
> > be okay, but it is not a preferred route.
> >
> > Can someone please give me some advice on how to fix this.
> >
> > Am I looking at downgrading udev or upgrading it or ... ? And if
> > downgrading it, how do I do that without losing everything else that
> > seems to be dependent on it?
> >
> > For reference, this is an installation from squeeze that was updated
> > to wheezy, but I have now read that this is an issue for those who
> > have done fresh wheezy installs as well.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > AG
> >
>
> After further research, I downgraded udev_170-1_i386 to udev_167-3_i386
> and libudev0_170-1_i386 to libudev0_167-3_i386 and rebooted.
>
> The problem is now resolved. However, the Update Manager wants to
> upgrade these two files to 170-1. Is there anyway to stop this from
> happening, or do I manually deselect these when it is time to update?
>
> Cheers
>
> AG
You can lock the package version. I don't know how to do it by apt (you
need to read man apt, google ...), but for Synaptic
- mark the package
- then use pull down menu 'Package' > check 'Lock version'
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