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jonessen

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Registered: 2013-12-21

Posts: 27

No input device works anymore after updating some packages

Hello,

I've got a serious issue with my arch installation: Since the reboot after my last system update, it doesn't accept any more input from my laptop keyboard, touchpad, trackpoint or any human interface device I connect to it.

I am sure that this is not an issue with the whole system freezing because after booting I see the network icon changing on gdm while the connection is established.

In live systems everything works fine, so this is no hardware problem.

The issue comes up somewhere in the boot process, but not right at the beginning: grub is no problem, and I can reboot the computer using ctrl+alt+del while it still boots, but when it reaches the graphical interface, it no more accepts any input.

I already tried reinstalling the kernel and grub, also I reinstalled grub into the MBR and had grub-mkconfig rewrite grub.conf.

Everything I still know about the update is that systemd, linux and iptables were part of it, and overall there were 75 packages updated.

When I updated the same packages on my desktop, everything worked fine on the next boot.

Here is everything dmidecode from a ubuntu live system knows about my hardware: http://pastebin.com/8AXVnBmH

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,279

Re: No input device works anymore after updating some packages

append systemd.unit=multi-user to the kernel booting line (can be done from grub menu) , so you'll boot into console instead of graphical.

Check if the input devices work then, that will tell if the problem is with X or at an earlier point.

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky

jonessen

Member

Registered: 2013-12-21

Posts: 27

Re: No input device works anymore after updating some packages

I had to append .target to multi-user, but then it worked. In both the rescue shell (which I got first when systemd didn't recognize multi-user without .target) and the normal login console, the input worked.

I then remembered I had xwayland installed, so I removed it and installed the normal X server. It's a shame wayland is still not usable

But after rebooting with the normal X server everything was fine again. Thanks!