Comment 53 for bug 807306
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| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote Re: [oneiric] Keyboard & mouse not working in X | #53 |
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(Get the code!)
Nothing to do with udev, it just causes the initramfs to be rebuilt.
What happens is that apparently due to the recently uploaded base-files there is now a /run directory, which might get partially populated during runtime. Apparently during initramfs time, udev uses /dev/.udev, but then when then initramfs is done, udev gets stopped, and restarted in the "real" system again, at which point it uses /run/udev/. But the latter does not have any of the previously detected properties like ID_INPUT_*, and thus stuff fails all over the place.
As you already figured out, "sudo rm /run/*" will temporarily fix the problem again.
We need to make up our mind here if we want to complete the base-files upload for /run, and adjust initramfs-tools etc. accordingly, or revert it, to avoid having more people fall into this trap.