[SOLVED] No Keyboard or Mouse in Xfce4

rdav · 2023-07-28 08:32:34

Hi All,

No keyboard or mouse at the display manager gui display.
However, can ssh into the box and disable the display manager and boot into cli.
Its then possible to then run startx into xfce4.
However, still no keyboard and the mouse cursor is stuck in middle of the screen.

After following instructions from https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php … 18#p718218
as in reinstalling xserver-xorg-input-libinput and reconfiguring udev, the keyboard and mouse are still unresponsive in gui.

here is apt policy file: http://ix.io/4BGj
here is Xorg.0.log file: http://ix.io/4BGl

thanks in advance for help to get this sorted!

- r

alexkemp · 2023-07-28 08:50:24

xfce4 has it's own 'startx': /usr/bin/startxfce4. Here is the head (options at bottom):

$ head -50 /usr/bin/startxfce4
#!/bin/sh
#
#  xfce4
#
#  Copyright (C) 1996-2003 Olivier Fourdan (fourdan@xfce.org)
#
#  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
#  (at your option) any later version.
#
#  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#  GNU General Public License for more details.
#
#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
#  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
#  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
#

if test "x$*" != "x"
then
  OPTS=""
  for OPT in $*
  do
    if test "x$OPT" = "x--help"
    then
      # print help and exit
      echo "Usage:"
      echo "  startxfce4 [OPTIONS...]"
      echo
      echo "Options:"
      echo "  --help                   Show help options"
      echo "  --with-ck-launch         Start xfce4-session inside a"
      echo "                           ConsoleKit session"
      echo

      exit 0
    elif test "x$OPT" = "x--with-ck-launch"
    then
      # try to launch xfce4-session with ck-launch-session in xinitrc
      XFCE4_SESSION_WITH_CK="1"
      export XFCE4_SESSION_WITH_CK
    else
      # append
      OPTS="$OPTS $OPT"
    fi
  done

Perhaps try that?

xinomilo · 2023-07-28 08:52:25

if you're using ceres, rollback libgudev-1.0-0 to testing version. (237-2). latest debian version causes this for all systems using eudev (like devuan, antiX, etc).
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5807

rdav · 2023-07-28 09:59:08

thanks for the speedy replies!

alexkemp:
startxfce4 has the same result, as in no keyboard or mouse.
Due to the underlying gui framework been broken.

xonomilo:
Rolling libgudev-1.0-0 to 237-2 isn't as easy as sounds
libgudev isn't going quietly.
checking on libgudev-1.0-0 that is installed

rd@beanz:~$ dpkg -l | grep libgudev
ii  libgudev-1.0-0:amd64                           238-2                                  amd64        GObject-based wrapper library for libudev

attempting to downgrade to 237-2

rd@beanz:~$ sudo apt install libgudev-1.0-0=237-2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package libgudev-1.0-0 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Version '237-2' for 'libgudev-1.0-0' was not found

Attempting to remove libgudev-1.0-0

rd@beanz:~$ sudo apt remove libgudev-1.0-0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libinput10 : Depends: libwacom9 (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libinput-bin (>= 1.23.0-2) but it is not going to be installed
 libqt5svg5 : Depends: libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.15.10+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

Asking atp to remove libinput10, this would remove 230 packages and free 930MB!

I am unsure what to do next, other than getting a list of manually installed packages and rolling back to Daedalus or Chimaera.
Reading closer on the link you posted, looking like systemd is moving to stop non-systemd distros via udev.
Thanks again for your help.

xinomilo · 2023-07-28 10:02:45

add testing repo along with ceres.
then :
apt policy libgudev-1.0-0
should show both version, and :
apt install libgudev-1.0-0/testing
to rollback to a working version.

rdav · 2023-07-28 23:35:31

Hi xinomillo,
Thanks for the very helpful instructions, now I have a working machine!

The steps I did:
Get to a cli screen:
reboot to "recovery mode", enter root password and log in as root.
or via ssh in from another machine.

Assess using "less" /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
Using "/" to search for "EE" and find this error:

$ less /var//log/Xorg.0.log
.
[   458.417] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/libinput_drv.so
[   458.418] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/libinput_drv.so: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1: version `LIBUDEV_247' not found (required by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgudev-1.0.so.0)
[   458.418] (EE) Failed to load module "libinput" (loader failed, 0)
[   458.418] (EE) No input driver matching `libinput'

check apt policy for libgudev-1.0-0:

 $ sudo apt policy libgudev-1.0-0
libgudev-1.0-0:
  Installed: 238-2
  Candidate: 238-2
  Version table:
 *** 238-2 100
        100 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ceres/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Add testing repo to /etc/apt/sources.list

 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ testing contrib non-free main non-free-firmware 
 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ testing-updates contrib non-free main non-free-firmware
 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ testing-security contrib non-free main non-free-firmware

updated apt:

# apt update

checked apt policy for libgudev-1.0-0 and now 237-2 has been added

# apt policy libgudev-1.0-0
libgudev-1.0-0:
  Installed: 238-2
  Candidate: 238-2
  Version table:
 *** 238-2 100
        100 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ceres/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     237-2 500
        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged testing/main amd64 Packages

Install libgudev-1.0-0 from testing:

$ sudo apt install libgudev-1.0-0/testing
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '237-2' (Devuan:5.0/testing [amd64]) for 'libgudev-1.0-0'
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libavdevice59 libavfilter8 libpostproc56
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
  libgudev-1.0-0
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 40 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/15.1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
dpkg: warning: downgrading libgudev-1.0-0:amd64 from 238-2 to 237-2
(Reading database ... 371412 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libgudev-1.0-0_237-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libgudev-1.0-0:amd64 (237-2) over (238-2) ...
Setting up libgudev-1.0-0:amd64 (237-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.37-6) ...

Restart display-manager slim:

$ sudo service slim restart
Stopping X display manager: slim.
Starting slim: slim.

log in and enjoy the systemd freedom!

mknoop · 2023-08-16 21:33:47

There was an upgrade to eudev posted today that looked like it might address the issue with libgudev-1.0-0.
I removed the hold on libgudev-1.0-0 and did update and upgrade. Everything seems to be fine now.
I did a reboot and there was no problem with processing mouse or keyboard events.

rdav · 2023-08-17 06:56:49

thanks mknoop!
After update to ceres l can verify that LIBUDEV_247 is support is now in libgudev-1.0-0

$ mcview -b /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1: symbolic link to libudev.so.1.6.3
0000000000000000 A LIBUDEV_183
0000000000000000 A LIBUDEV_189
0000000000000000 A LIBUDEV_196
0000000000000000 A LIBUDEV_199
0000000000000000 A LIBUDEV_215
0000000000000000 A LIBUDEV_247

logged out and restarted slim, all good!

- r

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#1 2023-07-28 08:32:34

[SOLVED] No Keyboard or Mouse in Xfce4

#2 2023-07-28 08:50:24

Re: [SOLVED] No Keyboard or Mouse in Xfce4

#3 2023-07-28 08:52:25

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#4 2023-07-28 09:59:08

Re: [SOLVED] No Keyboard or Mouse in Xfce4

#5 2023-07-28 10:02:45

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#6 2023-07-28 23:35:31

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#7 2023-08-16 21:33:47

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