Did you update your kernel in the process as well? On Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 07:53 Bertram Scharpf <li...@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > since an emerge-update-world on my notebook the keyboard > does no longer respond in X. This is extremely annoying > because when I have xdm in rc-update, X is started right at > boot. I have no chance to get back to the console using > Ctrl-Alt-F1, and the device in unusable. > > Yet, this is only a problem of the boot process. At home, > when I ssh into the system, I can do an > > # /etc/init.d/xdm restart > > and from that point on the keyboard works. It is even > possible to disable xdm in rc-update and start it after the > boot process has completed. I solved the problem temporarily > this way, but the problem probably is a bug and should be > reported. > > So I have a closer look. When I diff "Xorg.0.log" and > "Xorg.0.log.old" (after removing the time stamps) I find one > line that doesn't appear in the log of the working X. > > (EE) kbd: Keyboard0: failed to set us as foreground pgrp (Inappropriate > ioctl for device) > > What does this mean? I estimate that "us" is the personal > pronoun and not a keyboard layout, and that the server tries > to do some chgrp on some /dev/*. I have no clue what to try > next. > > Thanks in advance. > > Bertram > > > -- > Bertram Scharpf > Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany > http://www.bertram-scharpf.de > >
