I've had to downgrade to hotplug-20040105 in order to fix this. Otherwise, I have no mouse, no printer, no USB devices period. 20040105 has it's own problems, but at least it WORKS and I can use my mouse and my printer w/ a 2.6.x kernel. The error message I was geting was on line 171 of /etc/hotplug/input.agent, where it was trying to handle the keyBits field from modules.inputmap and choking on the :0:0:0:0:... etc. stuff following the initial digit. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -u hotplug 2. reboot Actual Results: Upon reboot, system will not recognize USB devices. Strangely enough, this also caused my SMTP server (postfix) to refuse to send mail, but I'm not networking through USB... WTF? Expected Results: Worked. ;^) Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.4-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.4-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups directfb encode esd foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql nas ncurses nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline ruby sasl scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype video_cards_savage x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Created attachment 27519 [details, diff] Fixes the input.agent. Fixes the input.agent so that it no longer chokes on the keyBits. The fix is basically a one-liner. The wrong syntax was being used, you can't use the arithmetic assignment syntax, $((value)), if the value itself may not be a valid number. Hopefully, this is the only fix needed. I'm about to reboot and see if the problem goes away.
Created attachment 27520 [details] Ebuild w/ version bump, including the newest patch An ebuild including this new patch.
Okay, the patch does fix a single problem but does NOT fix THE problem. hotplug-20040311 still leaves me as being unable to use my usb devices (printer and mouse). After rebooting with my patch, it eliminated the error(s) on line 171 in input.agent, but the new hotplug still did not work correctly on my system. Unfortunately, I don't have time left to work on this issue today: I've got paid work to work on. ;) I've since reverted to hotplug-20040105 and rebooted. I will, however, try to investigate this further.
Fixed in 2004_03_29 release
