Solved - Debian update - keyboard unresponsive

[Russell Reiter]

What I like about Linux is that there is more than one way to fix
stuff. Udev is apparently working now. It looks to me like this one
init script was fouling up by initializing udev before /dev/null was
created.

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:11:54AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 07:33:12PM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote:
>> > The updated system was having problems with udevadm trigger.
>> >
>> > This is a known bug
>> >
>> > Debian Bug report logs - #593083
>> >
>> > This fix is from the bug report
>> >
>> > In single user mode
>> >
>> > cd /etc/rc2.d/
>> > mv S02udev K02udev
>>
>> That doesn't look like a fix to me.  That just kills udev in normal mode.
>> That will certainly make a lot of things not work anymore.
>
> Amazing how the very first comment in the bug is also 'You just made
> it worse'.
>
> in fact deleting S02udev from rc[2345].d would be a solution (since udev
> starts in rcS.d and should not attempt to start in rc[2345].d).  One
> person said they probably caused it by using gnome's service config tool.
>
>> > init 6
>>
>> aka 'reboot'?
>>
>> Why not 'telinit 2' to actually just finish booting to normal mode?
>
> In other words, don't take advice from people that don't know what they
> are doing, as clearly the person filling the bug report didn't.
>
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