"Arvind Marathe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I had a debian etch running on my system for the past few months. > Today the system was working fine, i was out for a while for tea, > when i came back, it had hanged and when i force-rebooted it after > everything else failed, x-window-system does not start at all. I had > put runlevel 5, but it cannot go to that. Attached below is > the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file on startx command. Can somebody point > out what suddenly went wrong after running smoothly for several > months?
[snip] > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > No such file or directory. > (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse" > (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" > (WW) No core pointer registered > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: > KEYBOARD) xkb_keycodes { include > "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" }; xkb_types { include > "complete" }; xkb_compatibility { include "complete" }; > xkb_symbols { include "pc(pc105)+us" }; > xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" }; > No core pointer > > Fatal server error: > failed to initialize core devices It seems like something happened to your mouse (do you have a cat? :) ). Check cables and try replacing it with a known good mouse. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]