keyboard input of 1st keyboard is ignored in X after a while

[Wookey]

Since upgrading to precise my (PS/2) keyboard just stops working after a while. This is fatal and all I can do is log out of the desktop session (or reboot) to get it working again.

This happens every day or two, when I am typing - usually when scrolling back through xterm output. (shift page-up/page-down)

Some investigation has revealed:

hotplugging the keyboard doesn't change anything - nor does it produce any output in dmesg or /var/log/Xorg.0.log

I can ssh in and the system is working fine. My mouse still works fine.

plugging in a USB keyboard works fine and allows me to do some debugging:

switching to console (ctrl-alt-F1) shows that the PS/2 keyboard is working fine in console mode, so it's only bust in X.

Running xev shows only this when I hit a key on the dead keyboard:
MappingNotify event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 248

no keypress events.

My /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf fies are attached.

Relevant info is:
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
EndSection

in log file:
[ 32.547] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
[ 32.547] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
[ 32.547] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
....
[ 36.047] (II) config/udev: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard (/dev/input/event2)
[ 36.047] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 36.047] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'
[ 36.047] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 36.047] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: always reports core events
[ 36.047] (**) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event2"
[ 36.047] (--) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Vendor 0x1 Product 0x1
[ 36.047] (--) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Found keys
[ 36.047] (II) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Configuring as keyboard
[ 36.047] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input2/event2"
[ 36.047] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD, id 9)
[ 36.047] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 36.047] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[ 36.047] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "gb"
[ 36.047] (**) Option "xkb_options" "ctrl:nocaps,lv3:ralt_switch"

$ dmesg | grep "AT T":
[ 0.991439] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input2

$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM) id=8 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ CHICONY USB NetVista Full Width Keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]

$ sudo evtest /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd

shows all key press and release events on the dead keyboard. So they are arriving at this level, but the X input device seems to be ignoring them

$dpkg --get-selections | grep xserver
x11-xserver-utils install
xserver-common install
xserver-xorg install
xserver-xorg-core install
xserver-xorg-input-all install
xserver-xorg-input-evdev install
xserver-xorg-input-mouse install
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics install
xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse install
xserver-xorg-input-wacom install
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev install
xserver-xorg-video-intel deinstall
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau install
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome deinstall
xserver-xorg-video-radeon deinstall
xserver-xorg-video-vmware install

So I not really sure how this works but it lokos to me that the kernel-level evdev stuff is working fine. X ignores the xorg.conf 'kbd' config (possibly because xserver-xorg-input-kbd is not installed? but then evdev picks up the device and it works fine for a while, but for some reason evdev starts ignoring that input device.

This looks like a bug...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 22 15:40:06 2012
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-evdev
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-09 (194 days ago)

[Wookey (wookey)]

After rebooting I carried on using the USB keyboard, and after a while it suddenly stopped working. The PS/2 keyboard works fine. So it seems like the problem is 'first keyboard' stops taking input - nothing specific to USB.

The machine was up for 1h 45m waiting at login prompt, then I used it for about 40 mins before the keyboard stopped working.

staus info:

xev just provides a MappingNotify event - no keypresses:
MappingNotify event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 248

$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM) id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ CHICONY USB NetVista Full Width Keyboard id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]

$ dmesg | grep CHIC
[ 1.983626] input: CHICONY USB NetVista Full Width Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/input/input3

$sudo evtest /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000\:00\:1a.0-usb-0\:1\:1.0-event-kbd

shows key events on dead USB keyboard.

So situation is exactly as before but the other keyboard has got 'jammed' instead.

(I used the 'extra' keyboard for 2 full days with no further issues last time. We'll see what happens this time).

Any clues for other things to check?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Wookey, 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 xserver-xorg-input-evdev REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

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