evdev+hal => Too many input devices.

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:49:04PM -0700, walt wrote:
> On 07/06/2009 08:24 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:08:50PM +0200, Łukasz Maśko wrote:
> >> Dnia poniedziałek, 6 lipca 2009, Peter Hutterer napisał:
> >>> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:26:06AM +0200, Łukasz Maśko wrote:
> >>>> Dnia poniedziałek, 6 lipca 2009, Peter Hutterer napisał:
> >>>> [...]
> >>>>
> >>>>> Please attach the whole log, this snippet is not really useful for
> >>>>> finding the root of the problem.
> >>>>
> >>>> Here it is.
> >>>
> >>> urgh, not as zip file please. Always attach files to bugreports or
> >>> mailinglists uncompressed - the harder you make it for someone to look at
> >>> the file the lower the chances that someone does.
> >>
> >> Sorry, but the log file after 14 days has>200KB, therefore I didn't attach
> >> it to my mail uncompressed.
> >>
> >>> if the file is really as long as you claim, check for add/remove devices.
> >>
> >> There is nothing suspicious in the part before the logs, that I've written
> >> about yesterday. Besides, everything had worked till then.
> >>
> >>> I remember a bluetooth bug where devices never get removed, so each time
> >>> the mouse connected it would be added as new device - with the old one
> >>> still staying there.
> >>
> >> Everytime I hibernate, I stop the bluetooth susbsystem and unload USB
> >> modules - required by tuxonice. So it would have been be strange, if the
> >> counter was increased and not reseted while subsystem restart.
> >> If I come accross this problem again I'll check, if the mouse stops working
> >> under console.
> >
> > try exactly that then - restarting bluetooth or usb over and over again. the
> > server-internal counter is at 20 (40 in git) so it's easy enough to trigger.
> >
> > if you're running a git server, just run xinput --create-master "foo" a few
> > times to increase the number of devices already present. this way the
> > the error will happen sooner.
> 
> Just wondering if lshal would also reflect the increasing number of mice?

it should. If it doesn't, it's definitely a server bug.

Cheers,
  Peter