Bug 81657

Summary: Running Kickstart freezes mouse
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Mike DeMicco <blaster186>
Component: redhat-config-kickstartAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 8.0CC: notting
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Description Mike DeMicco 2003-01-12 07:35:17 UTC
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Description of problem:
Selecting Kickstart from the System Tools menu in KDE freezes Microsoft
IntelliMouse Optical USB pointer. Keyboard can still be used. It happens almost
always.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select Kickstart GUI menu from System Tools
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Actual Results:  Mouse freezes.Kickstart sometimes comes up, sometimes doesn't.

Expected Results:  Mouse doesn't freeze.

Additional info:

Keyboard can still be used. It happens almost always. No error dialog comes up.
There may be a message in a log file, but I don't know how to access it.

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2003-10-14 01:04:58 UTC
Sorry for not responding to this earlier.  It was misfiled against 'mkkickstart'
instead of 'redhat-config-kickstart'.

I am unable to reproduce this behavior.  To be honest, I don't see how starting
the program could cause the mouse to freeze since redhat-config-kickstart does
not try to probe the mouse.

Try opening a terminal and running 'redhat-config-kickstart' from the command
line.  Does the mouse still lock up?

Comment 2 Mike DeMicco 2003-10-14 02:11:36 UTC
Yes it still occurs, but is not limited to kickstart -- any program that probes
the USB.

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2003-10-14 04:12:06 UTC
Well, that's the funny thing...redhat-config-kickstart doesn't probe for the
mouse at all.

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2003-10-14 23:05:54 UTC
notting: Have you seen any bugs similar to this regarding mouse probing in RHL 8.0?

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2003-10-15 02:52:10 UTC
No, I don't recall anything like that.

Comment 6 Brent Fox 2003-10-15 22:55:23 UTC
Well, I don't know how else to proceed here other than to resolve as
'worksforme'.  I'm fairly certain that the Microsoft IntelliMouse optical
cordless works with Red Hat Linux on other machines.  I don't know how to
explain the behavior you are seeing because there is no mouse probing code in
redhat-config-kickstart.