[SOLVED] Keyboard/Mouse broken after dist-upgrade

BeniBela2 · 07-12-2015, 04:21 AM

Yesterday I tried to make a sid dist-upgrade and now I cannot do anything anymore.

It boots to the Desktop (autologin) and then neither mouse nor keyboard works. And the battery charging state is shown incorrectly, too.

Also the dist-upgrade failed halfway through, due to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...cgi?bug=790937

How can this be fixed?

syslog: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=0q9eyQvK

Keruskerfuerst · 07-12-2015, 05:50 AM

USB mouse and keyboard?

BeniBela2 · 07-12-2015, 06:15 AM

It is a laptop

So it has an internal keyboard and mouse pad.

But I do not like them, so I also have an attached real USB keyboard and mouse.

Neither work (perhaps I should tru if the internal work alone without the external)

Keruskerfuerst · 07-12-2015, 09:17 AM

Then USB support is not present in the kernel.
You may try to use the old kernel.

BeniBela2 · 07-12-2015, 12:00 PM

So I deleted everything outside /home and restored from the June backup.

Now it works

Guess, I should never install an upgrade again

vorbote · 07-12-2015, 12:58 PM

Argh ! Don't be so negative. The problem was a botched upgrade, you said so yourself . Instead update your system more frequently, say, once a week. Sid can be more stable than testing IME but you can't overlook the need to update frequently and keep several old kernels installed just in case. Familiarize yourself with grub's savedefault facility and life will be easier handling boot defaults.

BeniBela2 · 07-12-2015, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vorbote

Argh ! Don't be so negative. The problem was a botched upgrade, you said so yourself .

But it was a failed gnome package. I do not see why that would affect the kernel.

Perhaps the new kernel is just broken, since there is also this http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...up-4175547771/

Quote:

Originally Posted by vorbote

Sid can be more stable than testing IME

Ui, I was just thinking about upgrading to testing instead. In a few months, when everything is merged there

273 · 07-12-2015, 03:18 PM

I have found Sid more stable than Testing also -- and if there are issues with packages they seem to me to be fixed quicker in Sid also. When I used Testing I also noticed that packages went missing from the repositories for a while which I don't find with Sid.

Head_on_a_Stick · 07-12-2015, 03:26 PM

+1 for sid over Testing.

When stuff breaks in Testing, it stays broken for 10-14 days whereas in sid new packages are pushed through pretty quickly.

It is always vital to *read* what APT tells you during updates -- I use `aptitude full-upgrade` 'cos it starts offering multiple resolution options when there are incomplete transitions, thus alerting me to the possibility of b0rkage.

Also, install apt-listbugs