Bug#503459: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse: activating vmmouse lets X server die on startup

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:14:17 +0100, Peter Marschall wrote:

> (II) VMWARE(0): VMMOUSE DEVICE_ON
> (II) VMWARE(0): vmmouse enabled
> 
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c919e]
> 1: [0xb7f9d400]
> 2: /usr/bin/X(xf86PostButtonEvent+0xdf) [0x80e6f9f]
> 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//vmmouse_drv.so [0xb7b5d262]
> 4: /usr/bin/X(EnableDevice+0x9d) [0x80863ad]
> 5: /usr/bin/X(InitAndStartDevices+0x7b) [0x80864cb]
> 6: /usr/bin/X(main+0x3a0) [0x8074680]
> 7: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7d42455]
> 8: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x21d) [0x8073a81]
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> 
Hi Peter,

I suspect removing the call to FlushButtons in
src/vmmouse.c:VMMouseDeviceControl would fix this.  Care to try that?

Cheers,
Julien