Bug#337862: marked as done (gdm: Keyboard disabled on first startup)
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From: Peter Karlsson <peterk at debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gdm: Keyboard disabled on first startup
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Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.8-1
Severity: important
At the first startup from power-down, the gdm login window does not accept
keyboard input. The mouse works. Logging in remotely and doing a
"/etc/init.d/gdm restart" makes the keyboard work again, and it does not
fail again until after the next reboot.
Keyboard and mouse are both regular PS/2. I don't think this behaviour came
directly after upgrading to Sarge, I believe it was introduced by a security
upgrade, but since I seldom reboot I can't tell exactly.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=sv, LC_CTYPE=sv (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to sv_SE.ISO8859-1)
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.28 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii gksu 1.2.5-3 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session 2.8.1-6 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x- 2.8.2-2 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii icewm [x-window-ma 1.2.20+21pre1-3 wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like wi
ii icewm-gnome [x-win 1.2.20+21pre1-3 wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like wi
ii konsole [x-termina 4:3.3.2-1sarge1 KDE X terminal emulator
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 2.4.16-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.1-2 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.1-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.2-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.8.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.8.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.1-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.4-4 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit2 1:2.12.2-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii librsvg2-2 2.8.1-3 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 1.22-1 SELinux shared libraries
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Session Management
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxml2 2.6.16-7 GNOME XML library
ii metacity [x-window 1:2.8.8-1 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii openmotif [x-windo 2.1.30-5 The Open Motif runtime components.
ii pterm [x-terminal- 0.58-1 PuTTY terminal emulator
ii rxvt [x-terminal-e 1:2.6.4-6.2 VT102 terminal emulator for the X
ii wmaker [x-window-m 0.91.0-7.2 NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
ii xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 miscellaneous X clients
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii xterm [x-terminal- 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X terminal emulator
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:45:55 -0800
From: Ryan Murray <rmurray at debian.org>
To: Peter Karlsson <peterk at debian.org>, 337862-done at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#337862: gdm: Keyboard disabled on first startup
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On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 11:53:00PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> At the first startup from power-down, the gdm login window does not accept
> keyboard input. The mouse works. Logging in remotely and doing a
> "/etc/init.d/gdm restart" makes the keyboard work again, and it does not
> fail again until after the next reboot.
I'm betting you've added extra getty processes to your /etc/inittab file, which
since sarge, contains this:
# Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System,
# so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run X.
What's happening is that gdm has a minimum VT setting of 7, and it actually
manages to determine that the VT is free for it, and is set to start X.
Sometime after this, your init starts a getty on the same tty as X. You lose
keyboard input. When you restart gdm, the gettys are all already in place,
so gdm finds a higher vt to run on this time.
Either remove your getty on tty7, or set gdm's minimum vt to the first
available vt.
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