I get the same symptoms using kaudiocreator in Feisty Fawn.
eric-14 kaudiocreator
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
Major
** Changed in: kde-guidance (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Triaged
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Kcontrol doesn't open the system services module
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/77891
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I see the same problem in Feisty Fawn. Does this depend on avahi
(zeroconf) at all? I am not using/running the avahi-daemon. This
output comes after creating /etc/rc.d and also the symlinks mentioned
above.
$ sudo serviceconfig
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
