From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) I don't know what went wrong, I was just minding my business surfing with netscape 4.76 when my mouse and keyboard stoped working. I logged in via ssh and restarted. I have not been able to use by keyboard and mouse since. There was no one else on the computer at the time and I was in X running a few xterms, xmms, and netscape. I've shutdown all servers except portmap and sshd prior to this so I don't it's some over applications fault. Note this may have nothing to do with console tools, but bugzilla insist that I fill in a component and there isn't a 'unknown' component. I think a 'unknown' component should be added. Any help on this would be appreciatted Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.? 2. 3. Actual Results: I don't know how to reproduce it. The keyboard and mouse stopped working whiles I was surfing and won't work even after reboot. Expected Results: the keyboard and mouse should work 7.1 fresh install on 450PII 128MEGS
This is probably an XFree86 driver problem (which graphics card are you using?) and almost certainly not reproducable.
Thanks for replying. I have a ATI rage 128. I boot into run level 3, but I still don't have keyboard/mouse. And what reply puzzles me is that this problem survives a reboot, even if I've made no config changes. Are there any trouble shooting steps you can recommend. As of today I still can't use my workstation (I have to log in using ssh and exceed).
I experienced exactly the same thing with my Red Hat 7.1 install. It had been working perfectly for the last two weeks. One day I shut the machine down, the correct way so all the procs got the TERM SIG and all the services shutdown. Then the next day when I turned it on the keyboard and mouse didn't work. This is before X Windows even starts. Durring boot up I can hit Caps Lock on the keyboard and the light will go on and off reflecting the changes but as soon as the boot up finishes and the logon prompt appears I can no longer hit caps and have the light go on and off. The strange thing is that I completly reinstalled RH linux on the machine and the same thing occurs. No keyboard or mouse. There is no SSH daemon running (nor telnet) so I can not get to the machine at all. Machine specs: Processor: Intel Celeron/533 Grpahics: Intel i810 onboard AGP RAM: 64 MB NIC: 3Com 905B HD: 15 GB Maxtor Keybord: Tried standard HP keyboard and Dell keyboard from other machine. Mouse: Tried HP's original mouse and a Microsoft Intellimouse both PS/2. Software: All software is from the original install of Red Hat Linux 7.2.
This problem sounds very strange to me. I would guess hardware failure, however I don't want to jump the gun. Aside from hardware failure, the only thing that makes any sense is that your configuration has changed somehow to something incompatible. I recommend rerunning Xconfigurator and trying again. Are you using USB keyboard or mouse? Please provide accurate hardware details, copies of XFree86 logs, XFree86 config files, and your /var/log/messages file. Attach them all as plain text files using the hyperlink below.
mharris, I think is the kernel. I've been following the kernel mailing list, and Alan reported that there have been quite a few "keyboard lockup" and "keyboard stop responding" problems with the 2.4.2 kernel. I'm not sure yet, later today I'll recompile the kernel and see if that fixes things. I have a microsoft PS2 wheelmouse and a PS2 keyboard. I think someone on the kernel list mentioned some of the lockup problems are related PS2. Can it still be X even if my keyboard does not work in runlevel 3? I'm booting into runlevel 3. If you still think it might be X I'll send you my X configuration.
Created attachment 18451 [details] /var/log/message and XFree logs tarred and gziped
upgrading the kernel to 2.4.4 fixed the problem.
Thanks for testing that. The interesting question (for me) is if our current kernel in rawhide (2.4.3-2.14.X) is also fixed. It's very close to a 2.4.4 kernel codewise, so I'd assume so, but assuming != knowing for sure.
After upgrading to mouseconfig-4.22-1 the mouse and keyboard still did not work after rebooting. Later I SSH'ed in from another machine and changed the /etc/sysconfig/mouse file. Originaly it said DEVICE="/dev/mouse" I changed it to DEVICE="/dev/psaux" and now everyting works fine. The keboard and the mouse do not lockup anymore.
Ok, great. Thanks for testing out the new packages. Glad they're working for you.