Bug#807015: xinit: startx freezes, mouse and keyboard don't work

On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 07:55:54 +1100 Craig Sanders wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 01:57:53PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > Are you using systemd? > > Nope, this particular machine is still sysvinit. > > It also has over 20 years worth of cruft on it, as i first built it in

Bug#807015: xinit: startx freezes, mouse and keyboard don't work

Package: xinit Version: 1.3.4-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable sometime in the last ~70 days (since I last started X or rebooted), something has changed in X that prevents startx from working as an ordinary user. startx *was* working perfectly. Now when I run startx, I

Bug#807015: xinit: startx freezes, mouse and keyboard don't work

On Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:03:05 +1100 Craig Sanders wrote: Hi, > > sometime in the last ~70 days (since I last started X or rebooted), > something has changed in X that prevents startx from working as an > ordinary user. > > startx *was* working perfectly. Now when I run startx, I

Bug#807015: xinit: startx freezes, mouse and keyboard don't work

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 01:57:53PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Are you using systemd? Nope, this particular machine is still sysvinit. It also has over 20 years worth of cruft on it, as i first built it in 1994 and have continuously upgraded it (with debian unstable) ever since. > is

Bug#807015: xinit: startx freezes, mouse and keyboard don't work

I have managed to get startx working again, but I'm not sure if it's the correct way. I added my user to the 'input' group after noticing the following in /home/cas/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.1.log [ 24633.131] (**) evdev: Dell Dell USB Keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event1" [ 24633.131] (EE) evdev: