Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 68117
Mouse stops functioning after X sits for a long time
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:43:55 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020625 Description of problem: If I walk away from the computer for a few hours (not sure exactly how long yet) when I come back, the mouse does not function. Switching to a text console and moving the mouse will trigger gpm after a second. I can then switch back to X11 and it will function properly again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Idle X11 2. Return to system and move mouse 3. Switch to text console, move mouse, and switch back to regain mouse control. Actual Results: The mouse will idle out and no longer function in X11 after the system idles for a while. Expected Results: The mouse should work. Additional info: Switching to a text console and triggering gpm will bring the mouse back in X. Also, I have a USB keyboard and PS/2 mouse. There is nothing plugged into the PS/2 keyboard port. During the install, this also caused problems with the mouse not responding at all and I had to use a USB mouse. I have not checked to see if using a USB mouse will eliminate this hang.
Please attach your X server config and log file using the link below.
Created attachment 64504 [details] X Configuration File after install
As an additional observation, I reinstalled off of a bootable CD and only installed KDE this time. Prior to that, I had installed Gnome and KDE both. My login manager is now kdm and I don't see the problems with the mouse hanging that I did when I was running Gnome/gdm. If you'd like, I can reinstall again with Gnome/gdm and see if the problem comes back?
You did not supply your X server log file as requested. Please attach it to the bug report so I can examine it. Does the mouse just stop working, or does the entire X server stop working? Does the keyboard still work at all? Also, are you running xscreensaver? Is DPMS enabled or disabled? Are you using APM suspend/resume?
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Created attachment 69444 [details] Process Listing
Please see the attached Xconfig, xdpyinfo output, and process list. Only the mouse stops working. If I force kill X with control-alt-backspace, when it reloads, it's fine again. It also does it right after a logout. So, for instance, I may be working fine, logout, and when the new redhat login screen shows up, the mouse doesn't work. I force kill X, it restarts, and the mouse is fine again. xscreensaver is loaded, but does not have to be activated for this to happen. I am not using APM Suspend/Resume. -- sorry it took so long to get this data to you. I had to reinstall the beta again to get it. I had gone back to 7.3 for stability. --
Created attachment 69445 [details] xdpyinfo output
Does the keyboard still work at all when this occurs?
Yes, the keyboard works fine. In fact, the following is probably the simplest way to reproduce it and kick it in gear again: from boot... 1) init 5 - let gdm start up with the special redhat login screen that is there now. Note: The mouse should work at this point 2) Login to Gnome. The mouse will still work. 3) Logout of Gnome. The mouse will NOT WORK anymore as soon as gdm picks back up. At this point, you can just log back in since the keyboard still works. Gnome will start and the mouse will still NOT work. Switch to a normal console like ctrl-alt-f1 and then back to alt-f7 and the mouse will be fine again.
Ok - This is interesting. If I plug in a PS/2 keyboard - don't use it - just plug it in since I normally use a USB only keyboard, the problem goes away. The mouse works just fine going in and out of Gnome/gdm.
Are you using a KVM switch at all?
I am not using a KVM. The problem appears to have gone away with 8.0 release. I just reinstalled it today, unplugged the PS/2 keyboard that was making it keep working with (null) and everything seems fine on a USB-only system.
Ok, I'm writing it off to either hardware flakiness, weirdo BIOS, or perhaps kernel bug, or kernel workaround for hardware issue. Nothing in X has changed, so it wasn't likely X related. Closing as CURRENTRELEASE 8.0. Thanks