Solved - Debian update - keyboard unresponsive

Russell Reiter rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 27 19:43:12 UTC 2011


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 02:45:24PM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote:
>> Udev was running and tried to run again from a different runlevel,
>> that was the problem.
>
> Correct.  That was the problem.
>
> The workaround provided by the original reporter of the bug on the
> other hand did not correctly solve that problem.  It replaced it with
> a different problem.  That is why the udev package maintainer said in
> the comment to the bug "Don't do that.  It is wrong".
>
>> At this moment the fix for the user works, udev initializes on boot.
>> It detects and deals with devices and applies its rules appropriately.
>
> udev is not just for boot, it is for handling all hotplugged devices
> at runtime.
>
>> From my perspective it's about having a condition state of ready for purpose.
>>
>> So what's broken here?
>
> udev is supposed to be always running.  You told it to stop.  That is
> what is broken.  You may not have noticed the consequences of that yet,
> but they still exist.

So if it is stopped why does it detect devices that weren't plugged in
when it is first booted.

It is not stopped. Udev is just stopped from being called while it is
already running.

>
> Simply rename the incorrect script to anything you want as long as it
> doesn't start with K.  Then you will have solved the original problem
> and NOT created a new one.
>
> But hey if you think you are smarter than the udev package maintainer,
> go ahead.  Break your system.  Who cares.

Nope I'm not smarter than him.

Debian just uses LSB headers to deal with package maintainers.

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