Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 20:53:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Rob Clark <rpclark@ymail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit Message-ID: <117637.44743.qm@web111903.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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System Info: 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Tue Aug 10 11:43:36 EDT 2010, and xorg-server-1.7.7_1,1 X.Org X server and related programs Not having updated my ports in nearly 1 year, I did a sledgehammer approach with portmaster as follows: portmaster -D -R -f -m BATCH=yes -a This took a few rounds. I did this as I started having all sorts of issues after running down various port problems when going through a rather long /usr/ports/UPDATING. Maybe not the best method, but I think everything is finally done. After restarting X, prior to any reboot, I lost the mouse in X. So I figured a reboot was in order. Issue: After a reboot I found I had no keyboard -- not even in console mode. Trying the obvious first, I unplugged the keyboard and plugged it back in the ps2 port, and keyboard worked immediately -- this was repeatable. Reboot, same thing, no keyboard. Some digging around revealed that I had the following line in /etc/rc.conf twice: moused_enable="YES" I removed one of these (which I guess was the culprit) and left one as it should have been, then all was well. Keyboard found at reboot, no further issues -- mouse was available in X too. I have no idea why I had moused_enable="YES" in there twice, whether it was from an old or recent rc.conf edit, but it clearly seems to have been causing the issue. Other (maybe valuable) info: I am running hald in /etc/rc.conf as follows: dbus_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES" ...and these were there prior to the ports update. I figured this "issue" may be of some value since I did not do any src updates. I'll be glad to try to help or test this further, but keep in mind I'm not a coder. Thanks, Rob
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