Solved - Debian update - keyboard unresponsive

[Russell Reiter]

Just to be clear here, I meant the problem is solved for the end user.
At least until it breaks again.

This worked, no apparant acpi problems have surfaced as of yet (as
mentioned in the bug report) and the ps2 keyboard is now working, as
well as all usb devices are detected on boot and are functioning.

I did read something about gdm problems and the maintainer thinks
initramfs is broken for the guy who reported the bug. I'm not so sure,
I'm having a look for similar gdm problems now. In case there are
other issues.

I tried the other suggested fixes before this one: rm -rf /run and
creating an xorg.conf file with autodetect disabled. This renaming is
what worked. So far so good.



On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:57:28AM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The problem appears to be that some people end up with udev starting
> both in rcS.d and rc2.d.  Starting udev twice does NOT work.

You mean udevd right?

>
> On the other hand starting udev in rcS.d and stopping it in rc2.d does
> not fix things.  Sure it means you don't start udev twice, but it also
> means you end up with udev not running at all.  What you want it udev
> running exactly once.  That means starting in rcS.d only, and not in
> rc[2345].d.  Not starting is not the same as stopping.
>
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