Mates, This one is bizarre. Fresh 9.3 install. Working great for a week. I go to fire up kde and my mouse is moving r e a l s l o w like it is on drugs or something. So I end the current kde session, make sure no other sessions are running and restart. Same result. Well, I needed to bounce the system anyway for a bios setting so after bringing it back to life I issued the trusty startx command again. Now *no mouse* the pointer won't move. ctrl+alt+backspace. Fire up yast and look at the mouse. Yep, still ps/2explorer. Next off for a little trip to XFree86.0.log: nemesis:/home/david # cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old | grep EE (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse Hmm... nemesis:/home/david # ll /dev/mouse /bin/ls: /dev/mouse: No such file or directory WTF?? Next off to hardware information. Mouse should be /dev/input/mouse1 Question: WTF happened to /dev/mouse?? How could something just disappear?? Yes I know it is a soft link, but if I didn't remove it -- who did? Anybody else have this happen to them? Rather than setting a soft link, I just modified xorg.conf to point Mouse[1] to /dev/input/mice. Works fine, but that doesn't answer the question of what happened in the first place. Any ideas?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com --
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 00:28, david rankin wrote:
Rather than setting a soft link, I just modified xorg.conf to point Mouse[1] to /dev/input/mice. Works fine, but that doesn't answer the question of what happened in the first place. Any ideas??
I have one, David... fsck or the correct variant for that file system. I did a couple of "fresh" 9.3 installs not too long ago on this system... garden variety "fresh" installs, not upgrades, as I've done on the same system with 8.2, 9.0 and 9.2... and had unexplained file system problems creeping in hours to days afterwards. I eventually figured out that 9.3 was picking up data from the previous system (9.2). The corruptions started small with barely perceptible effects, but gradually grew to affect more and more of the drive until it would finally fall over. So, when you mention "fresh install" of 9.3 and combine that phrase with an unexplained lost system file, even a symlink, I know what *I'm* thinking... "where's that boot CD?" regards, - Carl
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 02:38, Carl Hartung wrote: Addendum (It's late/early here): I forgot to mention that it took mounting the partition, running reiserfsck --fix-fixable, then mounting it and rm -rf * at root prior to installing (again) for the problem to disappear. - Carl
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Hartung" <suselinux@cehartung.com>
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 00:28, david rankin wrote:
Rather than setting a soft link, I just modified xorg.conf to point Mouse[1] to /dev/input/mice. Works fine, but that doesn't answer the question of what happened in the first place. Any ideas??
I have one, David... fsck or the correct variant for that file system. I did a couple of "fresh" 9.3 installs not too long ago on this system... garden variety "fresh" installs, not upgrades, as I've done on the same system with 8.2, 9.0 and 9.2... and had unexplained file system problems creeping in hours to days afterwards. I eventually figured out that 9.3 was picking up data from the previous system (9.2). The corruptions started small with barely perceptible effects, but gradually grew to affect more and more of the drive until it would finally fall over. So, when you mention "fresh install" of 9.3 and combine that phrase with an unexplained lost system file, even a symlink, I know what *I'm* thinking... "where's that boot CD?"
regards,
- Carl
Carl, I'll keep an eye on it. I think the there was also a loss of the libler.so.2 and libldap.so.2 links as well. What is strange is when I say "fresh install", I mean really fresh install onto a pair of *new* virgin 250G drives. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com --
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