Bug 480267

Summary: 2.6.28 fingerprint reader broken, gdm failures
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Warren Togami <wtogami>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
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Description Warren Togami 2009-01-16 03:29:09 UTC
kernel-2.6.28-3.fc10.x86_64
kernel-2.6.28-4.fc10.x86_64
gdm-2.24.0-12.fc10.x86_64

The fingerprint reader on my Thinkpad T60 fails to login after upgrading from the 2.6.27.9 kernel.  gdm then behaves strangely and most often gets stuck completely, making even password login difficult.  Only after it has failed a few times (loudly like below from dmesg) it seems to give up and logins are possible, usually after restarting gdm a few times.

input: Virtual ThinkFinger Keyboard as /devices/virtual/input/input9
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3120 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use
usb 5-2: usbfs: process 3119 (gdm-session-wor) did not claim interface 0 before use

Comment 1 Pete Zaitcev 2009-01-16 04:09:16 UTC
This is _really_ strange, because the claim rule was enforced for years.
Certainly 2.6.27.5 should've been the same as 2.6.28.

I'm wondering if HID exclusion got lost somehow and thus devio cannot claim.

Comment 2 Pete Zaitcev 2009-01-17 00:32:59 UTC
I should've said that I'm not throwing this over the fence to gdm because
it looks like something was changed in kernel. It's only a mystery what was.
Warren, can you catch what gdm-session-worker is doing with strace -t -p XXXX?

Comment 3 Warren Togami 2009-01-29 22:25:23 UTC
I can't, because I cannot login to any terminal even with a password while pam is stuck waiting for usbfs.

Comment 4 Chuck Ebbert 2009-01-30 07:03:33 UTC
Pls try kernel-2.6.29-0.6.rc3.fc10

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