Package: udev
Version: 0.070-3
Severity: normal
Hi,
I upgraded to udev-0.070-3, purged hotplug, and removed obsolete
hotplug blacklistings.
After a reboot, the box was a mess. It loaded nvidiafb automatically,
kdm failed to start, and attempts to start kdm manually froze the
console, requiring reboots.
It turned out that the reason why kdm and X did not start was that
/dev/input/mice was missing. And it was missing because mousedev was
not loaded automatically. I just modprobed mousedev and things seemed
to work. So, compared to the earlier udev+hotplug setup, there are at
least some things that used to work but no longer work.
I don't know why manual attempts to start kdm froze the console.
However, I do suspect that this is caused by some interactions between
the nvidiafb module and the nvidia driver in X.Org. In the earlier
dev+hotplug setup, nvidiafb was not loaded automatically. Furthermore,
I think that I have never manually blacklisted it.
The file /etc/modprobe.d/display_class sounds good, its documentation
says that it stops the udev/modprobe from loading the fb drivers.
However, for some reason this did not do the trick on this box.
My mouse is a normal USB mouse. It seems that the USB modules were
loaded during the system startup correctly, and they did detect the
mouse; from the kernel log:
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on
usb-0000:00:1d.2-1
The video card is GeForce FX 5200, looks like this in lspci:
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX
5200] (rev a1)
and lspci -n:
0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:0322 (rev a1)
By huge amounts of really wild guessing, I think the following might
be relevant. The file /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/modalias looks
like this:
pci:v000010DEd00000322sv00001043sd00008180bc03sc00i00
And this does not match the pattern "pci:v*d*dc*sd*bc03sc*i*" in
/etc/modprobe.d/display_class.
The kernel is 2.6.12-1-686 from the unstable packages.
If you need any further information, please ask. I am not really
familiar with the udev and modprobe things in Linux nowadays, and I
don't know what information is relevant and what isn't.
Best regards,
Jukka Suomela
-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-07-12 01:41 cd-aliases.rules ->
../cd-aliases.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-07-12 01:41 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-08-15 17:49 z20_persistent.rules ->
../persistent.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2005-07-12 01:41 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2005-10-09 01:46 z55_hotplug.rules ->
../hotplug.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2005-09-20 02:33 z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2005-07-12 01:41 z70_hotplugd.rules ->
../hotplugd.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2005-07-12 01:41 020_permissions.rules ->
../permissions.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2005-09-30 01:52 025_libsane.rules ->
../libsane.rules
-- /sys/:
/sys/block/hda/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda1/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda2/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda5/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda6/dev
/sys/block/hdc/dev
/sys/block/ram0/dev
/sys/block/ram1/dev
/sys/block/ram10/dev
/sys/block/ram11/dev
/sys/block/ram12/dev
/sys/block/ram13/dev
/sys/block/ram14/dev
/sys/block/ram15/dev
/sys/block/ram2/dev
/sys/block/ram3/dev
/sys/block/ram4/dev
/sys/block/ram5/dev
/sys/block/ram6/dev
/sys/block/ram7/dev
/sys/block/ram8/dev
/sys/block/ram9/dev
/sys/class/graphics/fb0/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/input/mouse0/dev
/sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev
/sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev
/sys/class/misc/hpet/dev
/sys/class/misc/hw_random/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D2c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D3c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D4p/dev
/sys/class/sound/timer/dev
-- Kernel configuration:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=fi_FI, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-4 Standard scripts needed for bootin
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libselinux1 1.26-1 SELinux shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.0-9 Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip
ii makedev 2.3.1-78 creates device files in /dev
ii sed 4.1.4-4 The GNU sed stream editor
udev recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
udev/devfs-warning:
* udev/reboot-warning:
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