Hi Brian, I did the upgrade and had no mouse or keyboard issues, so I wonder if it applies to some setups and not others. My keyboard and mouse are both USB connected running on an Intel based motherboard and running LMDE/Sid 64bit.Brian49 wrote:Beware of the upgrades to initscripts, sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils which have just appeared in the Unstable repository. On restarting my computer, keyboard and mouse were disabled. These packages are not held back when running apt-get upgrade.
Full DU of my XFCE/SID partiton -- cursor is frozen at login window, keyboard does not work.Beware of the upgrades to initscripts, sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils which have just appeared in the Unstable repository. On restarting my computer, keyboard and mouse were disabled.
I don't have this problem on my notebook.Brian49 wrote:Beware of the upgrades to initscripts, sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils which have just appeared in the Unstable repository. On restarting my computer, keyboard and mouse were disabled. These packages are not held back when running apt-get upgrade.
I came across this issue before, when these upgrades were still in the Experimental repository. Evidently the maintainers have moved them to the Unstable repository without noticing the problem.
Wondered why the siduction repos had their own versions of these packages a couple of weeks ago. Apparently they knew something.Brian49 wrote:
Beware of the upgrades to initscripts, sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils which have just appeared in the Unstable repository. On restarting my computer, keyboard and mouse were disabled. These packages are not held back when running apt-get upgrade.
I came across this issue before, when these upgrades were still in the Experimental repository. Evidently the maintainers have moved them to the Unstable repository without noticing the problem.
Thanks for the reply. I don't know that it's broken, I haven't bothered to reboot yet to find outGeneC wrote:For me, I have learned that running SID I have to make frequent backups with Clonezilla. Ten Minutes to clone a partition, and about the same to restore.
Sometimes you can fix a borked installation, sometimes, not so easy. Some times you don't want to mess around and get back on quickly. That's the time to restore partition with Clonezilla. That's what i did with my above problem.
That is not helping you though, sorry.
To fix it?
I really have no idea. Wish I did.
Perhaps someone has a fix for you.
Look at some of the other forum links on the first post.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=70230
If I come across something. I will let you know with a post here.
I was just curious. Perhaps I should follow the advice of the above post and add the sidux repositories so I can "downgrade."
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System: Host: debian Kernel: 3.3.0-8.dmz.1-liquorix-686 i686 (32 bit)
Desktop: KDE 4.8.3 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid
Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ sid main non-free
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/musicmanager/deb/ stable main
deb http://download.jitsi.org/deb/ unstable/
deb http://packages.siduction.org/siduction/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://packages.siduction.org/razorqt/ unstable main
deb http://liquorix.net/debian/ sid mainI'm using the official kernel 3.2.19GregE wrote:I am using a Liquorix kernel, perhaps that is why mine works. What kernel are you running Regulus/xircon?
============GeneC wrote:I can verify Brians observationsFull DU of my XFCE/SID partiton -- cursor is frozen at login window, keyboard does not work.Beware of the upgrades to initscripts, sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils which have just appeared in the Unstable repository. On restarting my computer, keyboard and mouse were disabled.
(This is a brand new install yesterday, with no special tweak, nothing from experimental).
With those packages ( initscripts, sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils) held back on a separate partition (Shell/SID) and all other packages upgraded, mouse, and keyboard function normally.
Greg must be smiled upon today...
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gene@zordon:~$ inxi -r
Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint-packages/ debian main upstream import backport romeo
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free #"Debian Security"
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free #"SID"
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid main non-free #"SID Multimedia - NEW"
deb http://packages.siduction.org/siduction/ unstable main contrib non-free #"Siduction"
deb http://packages.siduction.org/razorqt/ unstable main #"Siduction-RazorQT"
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main #"Chrome"
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/liquorix.list
deb http://liquorix.net/debian/ sid main #"Liquorix"
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Commit Log for Fri Jun 8 06:21:21 2012
Upgraded the following packages:
initscripts (2.88dsf-22.1) to 2.88dsf-26
sysv-rc (2.88dsf-22.1) to 2.88dsf-26
sysvinit (2.88dsf-22.1) to 2.88dsf-26
sysvinit-utils (2.88dsf-22.1) to 2.88dsf-26
