Bug 734287

i stopped all tasks and then ran the solitare game - and i get the same result

mouse works - and then freezes for perhaps 5 seconds - and then works.

just for the hell of it I will boot a win98se disk and establishe whether it happens there (my hardware) or on ly ion fedora

win 98 works great but to get here i had to use the tab key cause mouse is frozen

but when i go to system menu and pick help mouse is not frozen - oops - freezes there at least when seamonkey is open

i stopped seamonkey and went back to gnome help and the mouse works fine there when that is the only application running

but when seamonkey was waiting and i had gnome help in another window, mouse hung in gnome help also

unless i"m wrong this all started a few weeks ago when i got an update of the kernel delivered automagicvally and system asked if it was ok to install - to whoch i replied yes

If I p[lay solitare - when the mouse cursor freezes - if I press alt tab to get the change task icon and then alt tab to return to the game - the mouse usually unfrrzes

BIG CLUE

when i interrupt grub and return to 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686 problem goes away

but when i try                      2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686 i still have it

so as a workaround i'll interrupt the boot

when i say goes away i should say - maybe there are short period of mouse freeze - but if there are they are short enough so that i'm not certain they exist

System acts as if it is waiting while messages are being written
went looking and find /var/log/messages file
am booted from 13-91.fc14 version
system works great booted from win98se disk

Aug 31 08:29:29 knox kernel: [ 3047.130360] psmouse.c: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
Aug 31 08:29:29 knox kernel: [ 3047.822911] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:29:29 knox kernel: [ 3047.905475] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:29:29 knox kernel: [ 3047.987976] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:29:30 knox kernel: [ 3048.070479] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:29:30 knox kernel: [ 3048.152982] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:29:30 knox kernel: [ 3048.235479] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:29:30 knox kernel: [ 3048.317987] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:29:30 knox kernel: [ 3048.400486] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:29:30 knox kernel: [ 3048.482989] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:29:30 knox kernel: [ 3048.565488] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:29:30 knox kernel: [ 3048.647994] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:29:30 knox kernel: [ 3048.730491] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:29:30 knox kernel: [ 3048.812996] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:29:30 knox kernel: [ 3048.895496] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:29:31 knox kernel: [ 3049.225405] psmouse.c: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
Aug 31 08:29:34 knox kernel: [ 3052.423419] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input12
Aug 31 08:30:22 knox kernel: [ 3100.526597] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:30:22 knox kernel: [ 3100.609160] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:30:22 knox kernel: [ 3100.691661] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:30:22 knox kernel: [ 3100.774161] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:30:22 knox kernel: [ 3100.856667] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:30:22 knox kernel: [ 3100.939167] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:30:23 knox kernel: [ 3101.021669] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:30:23 knox kernel: [ 3101.104172] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:30:23 knox kernel: [ 3101.186672] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:30:23 knox kernel: [ 3101.269175] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:30:23 knox kernel: [ 3101.351676] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:30:23 knox kernel: [ 3101.434178] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:30:23 knox kernel: [ 3101.516680] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:30:23 knox kernel: [ 3101.599182] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
Aug 31 08:30:24 knox kernel: [ 3102.360696] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input13
Aug 31 08:30:25 knox kernel: [ 3103.118711] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input14

Created attachment 520949 [details]
log

i just spent an hour using adobe to read a pdf and have seen no problem with mouse
looked in var/lob/messages and no error messages there

makes me sus[pect that the programs i frequently run - firefox and thundergird - start some malign process

i currently an im opera and have not yet seen any muse p[roblems

prior message was sent using opera - i am on opera right now
after i sent it, i looked at var/log/messages
no mouse error messages

astounding because whenever i use firefox or thunderbird there are lots of mouse error messages
and mouse errors then continue to appear in other programs

workaround dejour is to use opera and never firefox 

i will now try thunderbird without  first having started firefox

Sep  1 07:24:38 knox kernel: [37709.009913] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout

i ran thunderbird and for the first time today i have a series of the above in var/log/messages

i am now in opera and all seems well here.

i'll run other programs and see if there is a lingering infection from whatever happened in thunderbird

CLUE AND WORKAROUND

I switched mice with another fedora machine I have.
Both work now. And !! I am writing this from Firefox with no mouse trouble.

Details
unit 1 -- my machine
fedora 2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686
gnome 2.32.0
Intel Pentium 4 cpu 3.06 ghz

old mouse was Microsoft usb plugged into mouse port adapter - did not work - now have generic chinese mouseport unit and it is ok
by the way - same microsoft mouse w/o adapter plugged into usb port did not work that way either

unit 2 -- my kids machine
fedora 2.6.35.12-88.fc14.i686
gnome 2.32.0
Intel core 2 duo cpu e4500 @2.20 ghz

old mouse was chinese mouseport generic - worked ok = new mouse is microsoft usb with mouseport adapter that did not work properly on unit 1 - works ok here

I have a 3rd fedora unit - I'll try the microsoft mouse there and let you know what happens

the microsoft mouse works ok on my 3rd fedora system

2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686
gnome 2.32.0
mobile intel pentium III CPU M 1133mhz

unit 1 hangs with it, units 2 and 3 like it

Thanks for the report. It looks like a more general problem, not the firefox one. Do you still see it? If so, reopen the bug and reassign to kernel component. Thanks.