Bug 267230 – login starts, mouse cursor stops responding, login screen is produced,but have no kbd or mouse activity

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Geoff Madden 2009-04-23 15:53:10 UTC]

Updated kde from 4.1.2 to 4.2.2. no observable problems with update,IE all ebuilds performed as expected, but have not been able to login since. Occasionally I am able to get to a console,so I can try and trouble shoot. Have added freetype as that was missing according to xorg.log. Reinstalled evdev keyboard and mouse ,just in case. Still no result.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start the machine
2.wait till login screen appears
3.attempt to login

Actual Results:  
no activity on screen

Expected Results:  
logged in

not able to supply the emerge --info !!!!(worked my way round that)

Portage 2.1.6.11 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r1-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3700+-with-gentoo-2.0.0
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:45:02 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7
dev-lang/python:     2.5.4-r2, 2.6.1-r1
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.3-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.9
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.28-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64 ~x86"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -ggdb"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.2/env /usr/kde/4.2/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -ggdb"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 apm audiofile bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo caps cdparanoia cdr clamav cli cracklib crypt cscope cups curl curlwrappers dbus dga directfb djvu dri dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread embedded encode exif expat fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac fltk foomaticdb fortran ftp gcj gdbm gif gimp glut gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml gutenprint hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog javascript jdk-1.6 jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeprefix lame lcms ldap libcaca libwww lm_sensors lzo mad midi mime mmap mmx mng mono motif mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nis nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcntl pcre pdf perl php plasma png postgre ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby scanner session sndfile snmp soap sockets sox speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg symlink sysfs syslog szip tcl tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype unicode usb v4l2 vcd vim-syntax vorbis webkit xcomposite xine xinetd xml xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati radeon"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2009-04-23 16:52:15 UTC]

Please try to improve your bug report, including the summary.
Judging from the title, I deduce that you can't get your keyboard and mouse to work on KDE. If so, this was likely caused by your update to xorg-1.5.3 and as such has nothing to do with the KDE team. Also, make sure you follow the guide for the xorg-1.5 update - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml

[Comment 2 Geoff Madden 2009-04-26 15:56:23 UTC]

I followed the instructions to change my system over to 'evdev' ,but still had to use the xorg.conf file.
Also I rebuilt the world system,(prob unnecessary) and now have a machine I can log into.
Many thanks to the individual who set me on the right track.(In reply to comment #1)
> Please try to improve your bug report, including the summary.
> Judging from the title, I deduce that you can't get your keyboard and mouse to
> work on KDE. If so, this was likely caused by your update to xorg-1.5.3 and as
> such has nothing to do with the KDE team. Also, make sure you follow the guide
> for the xorg-1.5 update -
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml
>