Losing left mouse button(s)

Bug #573924 reported by Jim Louvau
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xorg-server (Ubuntu)
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Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: udev

The left mouse button of my Asus laptop stops working. It simply does not react to any clicks. The movement of the cursor and right button are not affected. The external (USB) mouse AND touch pad are both affected. Disconnecting or disabling either has no effect. The remaining one will still eventually quit working. The only solution I've found so far (other than a reboot of course) is to restart gdm. I've (so far) never lost the button after a restart of gdm, which is really bizzare.

A similar problem was reported in the forums:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1323171&highlight=left+mouse+button

This was re 8.10 and the problem was solved by blacklisting "Macintosh mouse button emulation" in the hal. If nobody has any better ideas I'll try to figure out how to accomplish this with a udev rule (I'm open to all the hints I can get).

This appears to have happened at some point between the last beta and the release. I hadn't updated this particular laptop in a while and didn't see this until after the release (oops). This may be a kernel error from one of the later updates.

Detected mice:

I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event3
--
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c526 Version=0111
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb7/7-1/7-1:1.0/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event5
--
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=01b1
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio4/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input11
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event11

The old hal fix for a similar (same?) problem:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!-- 15/12/2008 by BJ
*Match* devices you want to blacklist and *merge* info.ignore to true
Get the necessary info to match with hal-device
-->

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.category" contains="input">
<match key="input.product" contains="Macintosh">
<merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: udev 151-12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CustomUdevRuleFiles: 10-blackberry.rules 10-vboxdrv.rules
Date: Sun May 2 14:16:25 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. N51Vn
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=a64bb28e-6a5e-45bb-8b86-3b769f89a737 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: udev
dmi.bios.date: 08/13/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 217
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: N51Vn
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr217:bd08/13/2009:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnN51Vn:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnN51Vn:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: N51Vn
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Revision history for this message
Jim Louvau (jlouvau) wrote :
Martin Pitt (pitti)
affects: udev (Ubuntu) → xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Harald (hdmuell) wrote :

I use 10.10 on Acer 1825 PTZ
I have always to login in a console, restard gdm and than the mouse works. It did not work once in the release. I think it may have worked for a while in the beta.
By the way if I do not restart the gdm before logging in, The left mouse button does not work, so I have to enter the password 4 instead of 3 times.
I did not try any previous ubuntu version.

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Recon69 (m-carpenter) wrote :

 I'v had this bug a couple of times, Might have a bit more to add. Seems to happen to me when using edit boxes, best description I can give is appears that a left mouse button up even is lost, so as i move the mouse pointer around text is selected from the point where the left mouse button event occurred. right click will bring up a context menu but left clicks are ignored. I can tab out of the edit box and the text select stops but no left mouse clicks register.
 I think that pressing/holding a key on the keypad at the same time as when right clicking followed by a left click or some mixture if the three. I use a wireless trackball which I tent to have sitting on the bottom edge of my laptop, The bug seems to happen when I right click and the mouse slips onto the key pad.

 I know this is vague as hell but this is a infrequent occurrence and hard to fault find when your mouse not working. The latest time I managed to get the mouse back but could not tell you how as i was pressing alt shift and function keys randomly trying to get a text session so i could reboot.

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Peter Gulka (peter-gulka) wrote :

Confirmed in just about every implementation of X. I have this problem on any flavour of Linux on my laptop switching between 2 mice.

To make it more interesting the mouse randomly jumps from one part of the screen to another, seems to reject the call to release the left mouse button, and randomly right-clicks on its own. My system is unusable as a result. I really should make a video...

Potential bug fix here, but I have no idea how to run the patch: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18668 (I'm such a newb...)

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

Jim Louvau, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xorg-server REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs

Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) reached end-of-life on May 9, 2013.

This bug report has sat incomplete for almost nine years and did
not expire due to bug watches. Upstream issue closed as being fixed
but refers to a confirmation of being fixed in an earlier Ubuntu
release. Reporter did not respond to comment #5 so closing now.

Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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