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steff

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Registered: 2009-01-08

Posts: 57

xsession-errors UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT!

Hello everybody. I'm using kde4.2.1 and I've experienced recently some total freezes with cpu at 100% and everything frozen, only hard reset works. Controlling .xsession-errors I find hundreds lines of
XInputWireToEvent: UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT! type=94                       
XInputWireToEvent: UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT! type=94                       
XInputWireToEvent: UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT! type=94                       
XInputWireToEvent: UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT! type=94   

the file grows in 8 hours uptime onto 2,5 mb. It has to be connected with libxi, more I did not find out. Any ideas?

Jacek Poplawski

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-01-10

Posts: 736

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Re: xsession-errors UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT!

I wasn't able to run my system today for hour.
I was able to start w3m from console and found a thread on forum that this is caused by broken libxi.
I downgraded libxi, but no changes...
So I tried to install icewm instead xfce and it worked, I am able to use X, run Firefox and write these works.
Something has been really fucked up this time, let's find what, and why only few people see this on their system.

I am on Core2Duo E8400, ATI Radeon r5xx, xf86-video-ati, fresh Arch, problem happened on xfce4, what's yours configuration?

bug: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13751

Last edited by Jacek Poplawski (2009-03-14 11:06:27)

Jacek Poplawski

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-01-10

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Re: xsession-errors UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT!

Someone closed this bug as fixed

soupcan

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From: ?

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 268

Re: xsession-errors UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT!

That same error shows whenever I exit a GUI, but it doesn't seem to be causing problems for me. Similar to the "Generic Event Extension" errors.

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: xsession-errors UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT!

I closed the bugreport because I moved libxi 1.2.1 to extra. The 1.1.x version in extra was buggy because it was built against a protocol version that is incompatible with it.

zaazaa

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Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 8

Re: xsession-errors UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT!

I am still seeing this error message in my .xsession-errors file. According to pacman, I am using libxi 1.2.1-1 in my machine. I am also using KDE4.2.

Do I have to do anything else to make this error go away?

Jacek Poplawski

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-01-10

Posts: 736

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Re: xsession-errors UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT!

This not caused by libxi!

blum

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From: Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 77

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Re: xsession-errors UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT!

This not caused by libxi!

I had the same problem, and I was unable to switch my keyboard layouts. After downgrading to libxi v1.1.4-1 everything is fine.. (I tried libxi 1.2.1 also, but the problem remained). So if it is not libxi, what is it?

Last edited by blum (2009-03-16 07:20:02)

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Jacek Poplawski

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-01-10

Posts: 736

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Re: xsession-errors UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT!

Don't know, maybe it's more complex, anyway I switched from xfce4 to icewm and it works good for now. Will try to fix it later when I will have more time.

jensp

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Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 40

Re: xsession-errors UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT!

I reported the bug and I'm also experiencing the problem (keyboard stops working in X), however the message doesn't appear in .xsession-errors anymore since upgrading to 1.2.1-1, so I'm not really sure if my problems were related to libxi at all.

zaazaa

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Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 8

Re: xsession-errors UNKNOWN WIRE EVENT!

For some reason, I am not getting this error message anymore. I am not sure which update fixed the problem. I am using hot plugging in X and I never had any keyboard/mouse issue.