Debian Bug report logs - #655434
ltsp-client-builder: Should include package "hal" in client

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Reurich <daniel@centurion.net.nz>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: ltsp-client-builder: Should include package "hal" in client

Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:37:37 +1300

Package: ltsp-client-builder
Version: 5.2.16-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

The package "hal" is needed for mouse and keyboard to work in the x session ldm greeter. Until I manually install hal in the/opt/ltsp/i386 chroot the mouse and keyboard doesn't work on the thin client.  Perhaps hal should be depended on by ltsp-client-core?

Thanks,
	Daniel Reurich


-- System Information:
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
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Message #10 received at 655434@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>

To: Daniel Reurich <daniel@centurion.net.nz>, 655434@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#655434: ltsp-client-builder: Should include package "hal" in client

Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:46:00 +0100

[Daniel Reurich]
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The package "hal" is needed for mouse and keyboard to work in the x
> session ldm greeter. Until I manually install hal in the/opt/ltsp/i386
> chroot the mouse and keyboard doesn't work on the thin client.
> Perhaps hal should be depended on by ltsp-client-core?

This sound more like a dependency problem for X, if X fail to take input
without hal present.  Can you explain how you set up LTSP, to make it
possible to try to reproduce your problem?
-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

Message #15 received at 655434-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>

To: 655434-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#655434: ltsp-client-builder: Should include package "hal" in client

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 20:16:53 -0800

Version: 5.3.1-1

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 04:37:37PM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> The package "hal" is needed for mouse and keyboard to work in the x session
> ldm greeter. Until I manually install hal in the/opt/ltsp/i386 chroot the
> mouse and keyboard doesn't work on the thin client.  Perhaps hal should be
> depended on by ltsp-client-core?

i think the issue was actually missing procps, and installing hal pulled in
procps (either directly or through one of its dependencies).

missing procps triggered a bug in udev that caused udev to not run properly:

  http://bugs.debian.org/653031  

and thus no input devices (mouse/keyboard) were present available.

i experienced this issue as well, so enabled a workaround to this in ltsp
5.3.1-1 which recommends procps.

live well,
  vagrant

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