Your message dated Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:08:55 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#1115830: steam-devices: systemd258 requires udev
changes for the steam controller to work
has caused the Debian Bug report #1115830,
regarding steam-devices: systemd258 requires udev changes for the steam
controller to work
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Package: steam-devices
Version: 1:1.0.0.84~ds-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
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Dear Maintainer, steam controller and probably all other controllers handled by
this package aren't working any more since sytemd258.
It seems systemd requires some changes in the udev rules:
* ACLs for device nodes requested by "uaccess" udev tag are now always
applied/updated by systemd-udevd through "uaccess" udev builtin, and
systemd-logind no longer applies/updates ACLs but triggers "change"
uevents to make systemd-udevd apply/update ACLs. Hence, the "uaccess"
udev tag should be set not only on "add" action but also on "change"
action, and it is highly recommended that the rule is applied all
actions except for "remove" action.
Recommended example:
ACTION!="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", TAG+="uaccess"
The following example does not work since v258:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", TAG+="uaccess"
A user made a pull request with the changes needed upstream:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-devices/pull/67
Until this is fixed a workaround is to modprobe uinput. Then The steam
controller is working again.
Regards
Axel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.16.7+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
steam-devices depends on no packages.
steam-devices recommends no packages.
Versions of packages steam-devices suggests:
ii steam-installer 1:1.0.0.84~ds-2
-- no debconf information
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 at 08:33:50 +0000, Axel Regnat wrote:
It seems the problem was caused by a bug in systemd itself
(github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/39071)
Closing this as "not a bug" then.
Thanks,
smcv
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