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So I have the same problem in two machines with Arch installed. One is a laptop.
Whenever I run systemctl start gpm, it works and I can use the mouse in the console (without X). But when i add gpm to systemd as a service, on startup it fails because it can't find /dev/input/mice.
If I cat /dev/input/mice just after log in and move the mouse, there's input.
So I thought this had to be related to gpm trying to start before the mouse is configured by the system (by default gpm service requires udev to be started).
I tried several things I read searching in the forums, but none worked. I read mkinitcpio wiki and also systemd, tried to make gpm require more services so that it would be started the last one but it keeps failing.
It's not a major problem because I can just start the service after I log in, but of course I would like to fix it.
On the laptop I use a bluetooth mouse, but bluetooth is also configured as a service, runs fine and gpm runs with no problems if I start it one second after I log in.
I don't paste any config or error because it's not significant I think (It's a pretty fresh install and config is pretty default), but let me know if you need it. Gpm service is enabled but it fails to start, systemctl status gpm just says that it was not able to find /dev/input/mice so failed to start.
System up to date.
Thank you for your help.
Last edited by flblank (2020-05-26 17:39:13)
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