Solved - Debian update - keyboard unresponsive

[Russell Reiter]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 08:43:05AM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote:
>> if udevd is called from /etc/rcS.d and that is parsed before rc2.d,
>> its the redundant entry that looks to be the source of the problem.
>
> Yes it is redundant and yes you want it to not try starting twice.
> So rename it or move it or something.  Just DON'T rename it to a kill
> script.
>
>> What appears to have happened is another package installed the
>> redundant S02udev entry in rc2.d. That machine does use parts of the
>> unstable release for AV reasons. Some other reading tells me possible
>> culprit is gdm.
>>
>> Rember the fix was rename the file not remove or move it. Moving it to
>> K leaves the development tree stable
>
> The problem is renaming it to K turns it from a 'start udev' script into a
> 'stop udev' script.  That is how sysv init works.  That is NOT what you want.

Renaming it to K disables the script which makes it non-functional as
a start script, it does not turn it into a stop script. Unless the
README file is wrong.

To disable a script in this directory, rename it so that it begins
with a 'K' and run 'update-rc.d script defaults' to update the order
using the script dependencies.

For more information see /etc/init.d/README.

I don't see what you think is broken. Certainly hot plugging is
working now on the machine and in fact some of the buttons which
didn't work on the ps2 keyboard are now functioning, so clearly there
was a point to the update which caused the initial problem.




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