On Wed, 06 May 2015 12:40:50 -0500
Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hazel Russman wrote:
> > On Wed, 06 May 2015 11:40:56 -0500
> > Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hazel Russman wrote:
> >>> Like several people on this list, I have been getting annoying messages at
> >>> boot time about nonexistent storage devices on empty usb ports. An earlier
> >>> post by Bruce Dubbs suggested a simple edit of
> >>> /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules to prevent this. On my LFS7.6 
> >>> system
> >>> with systemd, this edit worked very well.
> >>>
> >>> However on LFS7.7 with sysvinit, it does not work. Not only do the 
> >>> messages
> >>> remain, but the change somehow screws up xorg's evdev driver so that 
> >>> neither
> >>> the mouse nor the keyboard work any more. This means that not only can I 
> >>> not
> >>> use X but I can't even get back to a console to correct the problem!
> >>>
> >>> At first I thought I might have made a typo during the edit, so I tried 
> >>> again
> >>> by copying the previously edited file from LFS7.6 (where it works 
> >>> perfectly
> >>> well) to LFS7.7. It turns out the effect is real, though it only shows up
> >>> after rebooting with the modified file; simply shutting down and 
> >>> restarting X
> >>> under the new rules doesn't cause problems.
> >>>
> >>> A diff run shows that the only difference between the old and the new 
> >>> files
> >>> is the position of the line ACTION!="add", GOTO="default_permissions_end".
> >>>
> >>> Can anyone explain this?
> >>
> >> Does it work if you use the unmodified 50-udev-default.rules?
> 
> > Yes. The file that comes with LFS works perfectly, except for the spurious 
> > warnings.
> 
> Hmm.  Works OK for me.
> 
> >> The rules that are skipped by the change are:
> >>
> >> 1. SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", \
> >>      IMPORT{builtin}="usb_id", \
> >>      IMPORT{builtin}="hwdb --subsystem=usb"
> >>
> >> 2. SUBSYSTEM=="input", ENV{ID_INPUT}=="", \
> >>      IMPORT{builtin}="input_id"
> >>
> >> 3. ENV{MODALIAS}!="", \
> >>      IMPORT{builtin}="hwdb --subsystem=$env{SUBSYSTEM}"
> 
> One thing to try is to start with the unmodified rules file and add the 
> condition  ACTION=="add" to rule 1 above.  That would skip the problematic 
> IMPORT{builtin}="usb_id" command that causes the spurious warnings.
> 
>    -- Bruce
In the mean time I have done a few more tests and I can definitely say that the 
line which is causing the problem in 7.7 is
SUBSYSTEM=="input", ENV{ID_INPUT}=="", IMPORT{builtin}="input_id"
If this is above the skip line, evdev works. The other two rules can safely 
come below and be skipped.

I don't really understand udev rules, but would I be right in thinking that the 
"non-add" events which would lead to this line being skipped include keystrokes 
and mouse clicks? Because those are the things which are not working.

I would dearly love to know whether the same bug occurs in 7.7-systemd. Because 
if it doesn't, this could be a difference between udev and eudev. 


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