[Bug 490803] [NEW] KDM starts too early in Lucid, causing keyboard/mouse not to work at first and ACPI not to be detected.

[Michael Marley]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kdm

On my Lucid amd64 test system, KDM appears to start too early in the
boot process.  When it first comes up, it is impossible to use the
keyboard or mouse for several seconds, and a message like this appears
in the log:

 Error  config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null)

Additionally, another error appears in the log stating that
/var/run/acpid.socket could not be found, and the ACPI connection
failed.  I have worked around the ACPI problem by modifying the KDM
upstart script to wait until acpid is running before starting KDM, but
it is already supposed to wait for HAL, so I am not quite sure what is
going on here.  I also wasn't quite sure whether I should file this bug
in KDM or in Upstart, so sorry if I got it wrong.

** Affects: kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: kdm
  
- On my Lucid amd64 test system, KDM appears to start to early in the boot
- process.  When it first comes up, it is impossible to use the keyboard
- or mouse for several seconds, and a message like this appears in the
- log:
+ On my Lucid amd64 test system, KDM appears to start too early in the
+ boot process.  When it first comes up, it is impossible to use the
+ keyboard or mouse for several seconds, and a message like this appears
+ in the log:
  
-         Error   config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error
- (null)
+  Error  config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null)
  
  Additionally, another error appears in the log stating that
  /var/run/acpid.socket could not be found, and the ACPI connection
  failed.  I have worked around the ACPI problem by modifying the KDM
  upstart script to wait until acpid is running before starting KDM, but
  it is already supposed to wait for HAL, so I am not quite sure what is
  going on here.  I also wasn't quite sure whether I should file this bug
  in KDM or in Upstart, so sorry if I got it wrong.

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KDM starts too early in Lucid, causing keyboard/mouse not to work at first and ACPI not to be detected.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490803
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