Re: xserver-xorg crash: "configured mouse"

2006-07-22 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Yay, I figured it out. I had installed usbmount, which installed udev and uninstalled hotplug. This was one of the last things I did in xwindows. Just now I noticed that, among other errors, I had a startup error that said something about udev unable to run; it flew by pretty fast. Well I ran

Re: xserver-xorg crash: "configured mouse"

2006-07-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:33:32 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 7/22/06, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 05:24:10 -0500, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > >> I forgot, this stuck out at me: the first line of the error report > >> with an error says "xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device > >>

Re: xserver-xorg crash: "configured mouse"

2006-07-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: This morning I did a dist-upgrade and everything appeared fine. It upgraded several hundred packages, including xserver-xorg, a whole lot of python, and some other stuff I can't remember. Better next time use "script" and then do the dist-upgrade. Then you get to keep a

Re: xserver-xorg crash: "configured mouse"

2006-07-22 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 7/22/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 05:24:10 -0500, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > I forgot, this stuck out at me: the first line of the error report > with an error says "xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device > /dev/input/mice" > Seems weird, should it be using an

Re: xserver-xorg crash: "configured mouse"

2006-07-22 Thread Ice
I had a similiar problem after a dist-upgrade my dev directory was... vacant.  what kernel is your box running? (uname -r)you also have to make sure udevd starts up at boot up.  is udevd running?  "pgrep udevd -l" will let you know whats the output of #cat /dev/input/mice (as root.  if it works mov

Re: xserver-xorg crash: "configured mouse"

2006-07-22 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 7/22/06, Chuckk Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I forgot, this stuck out at me: the first line of the error reportwith an error says "xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device/dev/input/mice"I had a similar problem with a new install of etch recently.  Replacing /dev/input/mice with /dev/psaux in /e

Re: xserver-xorg crash: "configured mouse"

2006-07-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 05:24:10 -0500, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > I forgot, this stuck out at me: the first line of the error report > with an error says "xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device > /dev/input/mice" > Seems weird, should it be using anything with the name xf86? That is normal; many referen

Re: xserver-xorg crash: "configured mouse"

2006-07-22 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Also cannot shut down. #: shutdown now it sends all processes the TERM and KILL signals several times, then: error: '/etc/init.d/rc' exited outside the expected code flow. One more KILL signal, then "give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue)". I tried both password and c

Re: xserver-xorg crash: "configured mouse"

2006-07-22 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
I forgot, this stuck out at me: the first line of the error report with an error says "xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice" Seems weird, should it be using anything with the name xf86? On 7/22/06, Chuckk Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This morning I did a dist-upgrade and ever

xserver-xorg crash: "configured mouse"

2006-07-22 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
This morning I did a dist-upgrade and everything appeared fine. It upgraded several hundred packages, including xserver-xorg, a whole lot of python, and some other stuff I can't remember. I traded some packages around then, traded hotplug for usbmount if I recall correctly. I did get Linux to mo