David Wolfskill
2010-Feb-09 22:41 UTC
7.3-P r203700: what can I do about "psm0: the aux device is gone!"
I normally run X11 (via xdm) on my laptop. Today, running FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE as of r203700, the mouse stopped moving. Logging in from a pty & checking the last bit of /var/log/messages showed: Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: kbdc: TEST_AUX_PORT status:0000 Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: kbdc: RESET_AUX return code:00fa Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: kbdc: RESET_AUX status:ffffffff Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: kbdc: DIAGNOSE status:0055 Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: kbdc: TEST_KBD_PORT status:0000 Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: psm0: failed to reset the aux device. Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: psm0: the aux device has gone! (reinitialize). uname output: FreeBSD localhost 7.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE #56 r203700: Tue Feb 9 05:31:36 PST 2010 root@g1-136.catwhisker.org:/common/S2/obj/usr/src/sys/CANARY i386 So far, the least disruptive form of evasive action I've found is a reboot, which is quite a bit more disruptive than I'd prefer. Help? Thanks! Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20100209/15d27c48/attachment.pgp
jhell
2010-Feb-11 17:07 UTC
7.3-P r203700: what can I do about "psm0: the aux device is gone!"
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:41, david@ wrote:> I normally run X11 (via xdm) on my laptop. > > Today, running FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE as of r203700, the mouse stopped > moving. > > Logging in from a pty & checking the last bit of /var/log/messages > showed: > > Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: kbdc: TEST_AUX_PORT status:0000 > Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: kbdc: RESET_AUX return code:00fa > Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: kbdc: RESET_AUX status:ffffffff > Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: kbdc: DIAGNOSE status:0055 > Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: kbdc: TEST_KBD_PORT status:0000 > Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: psm0: failed to reset the aux device. > Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: psm0: the aux device has gone! (reinitialize). > > > uname output: > > FreeBSD localhost 7.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE #56 r203700: Tue Feb 9 05:31:36 PST 2010 root@g1-136.catwhisker.org:/common/S2/obj/usr/src/sys/CANARY i386 > > So far, the least disruptive form of evasive action I've found is a > reboot, which is quite a bit more disruptive than I'd prefer. > > Help? > > Thanks! > > Peace, > david >High David, I'm assuming that you've checked to make sure that moused is running after psm has disappeared ?. As a somewhat workaround until the cause of this problem can be determined you could setup a cronjob as root to check for moused and if not found restart it. Add moused_port="/dev/ums?" to /etc/rc.conf and replace ? with corresponding device number. Add the following to /etc/crontab pgrep moused ||service moused restart Of course this does not detect which moused is running and for what device so some adjustment might be needed there if you have more then one moused running at a time usually. Good Luck. -- jhell