On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 09:29:18AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Joel Roth a écrit : > >>> > >>> (running sid) > (...) > > Good idea! I tried booting Rescatux, and didn't see any > > trace of problems with the USB input devices. > > > > And then rebooting my usual system, the issue with lost > > keystrokes/mouse-movements return. Happily, it's not > > hardware. > > When running sid, my first guess would not be hardware. > > > Rescatux is 3.2.0-4-amd64, my current system is 3.2.0-3-amd64 > > Why are you still running such an old kernel (even older than the kernel > in stable) with sid ? There have been issues when the kernel and udev > are of too different ages.
I wasn't paying attention... I had considered that kernel interfaces remained stable over time. Once I could get the driver and firmware for my wireless card compiled in the kernel, I pretty must lost interest in future upgrades. I never needed any new features. I upgraded sid, either to get new versions of software, and to avoid too long a gap in time (which I was told could lead to problem in upgrades having too cross too much "distance".) I note that apt-get upgrade/dist-upgrade did not advise installing new kernels. Although there are few guarantees for sid, I never imagined that upgrading through a non-broken dependency graph would break my system, and end up corrupting two NTFS file systems that cannot be easily fixed by utilities commonly available under Linux. (Ext4 didn't seem to suffer as much.) This is one of the bigger file system corruption issues I've had with Debian. Fortunately, the partitions were automatically remounted read-only while the contents were still readable, and fortunately, I've been particular about backing up. I guess my inadvertent experiment illustrated these dependencies between udev and the kernel. No doubt future upgrades of debian will require that kernel upgrades be baked into the package dependency tree. Greetings, Joel -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141121115017.GA6708@sprite