[Bug 807306] Re: [oneiric] Keyboard & mouse not working in X - incomplete migration to /run

[Steve Langasek]

Davide,

The problem with removing /var/run and /var/lock and making them
symlinks yourself is that this breaks all the various things that access
sockets in either of these directories.  If you do this on a desktop
system, your desktop will be broken until reboot, and may not even shut
down cleanly.

If you are going to make this change yourself, I recommend that you boot
to single user mode, make the change, and immediately reboot.  /var/run
should point to /run; /var/lock should point to /run/lock.

I would still like to know why the automatic upgrade didn't work for
you.  If users are already running into problems with the migration at
this early stage in the release cycle, I'm very concerned that this will
break for many more users at the time of the beta - users who are going
to be less able to help us diagnose the problem.

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Title:
  [oneiric] Keyboard & mouse not working in X - incomplete migration to
  /run

Status in “initramfs-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “initramfs-tools” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released
Status in “mountall” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged
Status in “udev” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released
Status in “initramfs-tools” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I've been running oneiric in a kvm guest for a while and updated it an
  hour or so ago; the keyboard and mouse are not working in lightdm at
  all - but if I log in remotely and chvt 1 the keyboard works in the
  console.

  The VM is a kvm guest running on a natty host; it was working fine
  prior to an apt-get upgrade in the guest.

  Dave

  From duplicates, it affects upgrades to Oneiric on real hardware.

  WORKAROUND:
  unplug/re-plug keyboard and mouse.
  OR
  run the following command:
   $ sudo rm -r /run/*

  Hold shift during boot to get into the grub menu, and then boot any
  older kernel, in order to get mouse/keyboard back for removing /run/*
  (or better, upgrading to the fixed packages).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-3.4-generic 3.0.0-rc5
  Uname: Linux 3.0-3-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
  CurrentDmesg:
   [   18.114989] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (1023) terminated with status 1
   [   20.107750] EXT4-fs (vda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0
   [   27.312116] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
  Date: Fri Jul  8 01:54:50 2011
  DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-05-28 23:33:13.232655
  DistroCodename: oneiric
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  GraphicsCard:
   Cirrus Logic GD 5446 [1013:00b8] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc Device [1af4:1100]
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110410)
  Lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  MachineType: Bochs Bochs
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0-3-generic root=UUID=1b3c04e7-a618-4d4a-a2dd-0e977cc4a7b6 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  Renderer: Unknown
  SourcePackage: xorg
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-26 (11 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 01/01/2007
  dmi.bios.vendor: Bochs
  dmi.bios.version: Bochs
  dmi.chassis.type: 1
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Bochs
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnBochs:bvrBochs:bd01/01/2007:svnBochs:pnBochs:pvr:cvnBochs:ct1:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Bochs
  dmi.sys.vendor: Bochs
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu6
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11~1-0ubuntu3
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11~1-0ubuntu3
  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.2-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.0-3ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

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