Created attachment 497540 [details] dmesg I don't know why udev is not creating /dev/input/mice link to /dev/input/event12 (my mouse device). This causes gpm to fail to start but, before hardcoding the path, I would like to clarify why the link is not being created in one of the machines I admin while still works in others
Created attachment 497542 [details] journalctl -b compressed zwith xz
Created attachment 497544 [details] lsusb
# emerge --info systemd Portage 2.3.10 (python 3.4.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-5.4.0, glibc-2.23-r4, 4.12.12-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.12.12-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-6600_CPU_@_3.30GHz-with-gentoo-2.3 KiB Mem: 16316888 total, 12118224 free KiB Swap: 8388604 total, 8388604 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 00:45:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 667d915a8e649c3972643f9bbaa9fb33e40d40b5 sh bash 4.3_p48-r1 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.28.1 p1.0) 2.28.1 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p48-r1::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.24.1-r2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.12::gentoo, 3.4.5::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.7.2::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.3::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.28::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.10-r3::gentoo 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/dev/input/mice should be a device node created by the kernel, not a symlink managed by udev. % ls -l /dev/input/mice crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 63 Sep 10 22:53 /dev/input/mice Perhaps you have disabled some kernel option?
It looks like /dev/input/mice is created by the mousedev driver, which is only built if CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE is enabled in your kernel config.
Created attachment 497584 [details] /proc/config.gz Yeah, I was reviewing kernel options deeply but the node is still missing. I attach the full config, but you can see that I have CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y Should I reassign this to kernel people then? Thanks
My kernel log (4.9.34) has this: Sep 10 22:53:36 localhost kernel: mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Your dmesg output does not contain any output from the mousedev driver.
> Should I reassign this to kernel people then? Thanks This is clearly not a systemd bug. I don't think it's a kernel bug either, but rather some configuration issue (different hardware or kernel options).
Maybe they know what option needs to be enabled for this :/
From your config.gz dump: # CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV is not set Try turning that one on. ;)
Thanks! I will try :D
