Bug 177410

Summary:	sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0_alpha2 - No keyboard under X
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Togge <togge.gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	/etc/conf.d/xdm /etc/conf.d/rc

Description Togge 2007-05-07 06:53:29 UTC

sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0_alpha2 starts xdm to fast, resulting in no keyboard in X. Not sure where this bug really should go but the error is only visible with this version. Serial or parallel startup makes no difference. I've seen this on two machines, one ~amd64 and one ~x86. Omitting xdm from the default runlevel and starting it manually after login removes the problem. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Togge 2007-05-09 18:38:44 UTC

Seems like this is due to that xdm is started before all of the tty's are. Any keyboard input is placed on tty2 and can be viewed (garbled) it xdm is stopped via ssh.

Solution still a mystery :(

Comment 2 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-09 22:02:41 UTC

Attach your /etc/conf.d/xdm and /etc/conf.d/rc please

Comment 3 Togge 2007-05-10 06:46:37 UTC

Created attachment 118719 [details]
/etc/conf.d/xdm

Comment 4 Togge 2007-05-10 06:47:09 UTC

Created attachment 118721 [details]
/etc/conf.d/rc

Comment 5 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-02 13:17:16 UTC

This should be fixed in the latest xinit/xdm init script.