[SOLVED] mouse randomly quits clicking and scrolling and windows freeze...

slac-in-the-box · 07-20-2011, 12:10 AM

Unfortunately, I've encountered a disaster the likes of which I've never seen before:

Yesterday, in slackware 13.1, while using firefox, the window would no longer move or resize, and I could no longer click on things in that window...

While this happens, the icons in xfce4 panel no longer acknowledge that the mouse is rolling over them, so I can't launch terminal from a panel, etc.; however I am still able to right click on desktop and open terminal and other apps that way...

Since it was high time to upgrade to 13.37, and since I was experiencing weirdness, I decided to do a clean install: I actually repartitioned my drive, and reformatted the partitions (all xfs, and after backing up my data, of course)...

On this fresh install, the problem recurred... argh...

So I figured it had to be something in one of the user specific configuration folders that start with . in the home folder... .kde, .cache, .config, etc.,r though I did not know which things to try and remove...

Then I decided to create new user... Even in the fresh user account on 13.37, on fresh install, (the account I'm using right now), the problem has recurred... I had to use tab to navigate to LQ, and to the Post New Thread link, cause mouse wouldn't click)...

While writing this, the mouse decided to start clicking around in this window again (i.e. arrow turns to finger over links, and to the insertion bracket over text fields), but it still won't resize or move the window, or even select windows in the background, or items in the panel... so it's erratic.

I ran rkhunter on 13.1 yesterday and it had some usual warnings that it always has about some scripts in the bin folder that are scripts and not binaries... nothing else was reported...

Can such behavior be hardware related? Can it be hacker related? I would like to post the output of some logs, but I don't know which logs to even check. (weird, now it won't right click in desktop to open terminal either, will have to ctl-alt-f2 to look at some logs, hold on...

ok... couldn't figure out how to cut and paste from the new tty, but I saw many entries at end of /var/log/messages similar to the following, which I noted by hand and rewrote here:

Code:

papaz kernel: [10412,428883] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Allocating FIFO number 4
papaz kernel: [10412,442451] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0 nouveau_channel_alloc: initialized FIFO 4
papaz kernel: [11611.747861] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0 nouveau_channel_free:  freeing fifo 4
papaz --MARK--
papaz --MARK--

(my hostname is papaz)... only the numbers in brackets change, and the timestamps, but those three lines repeat themselves for hundreds of lines, with the occasional --MARK-- line in between.

I don't know if that's significant, or not. Oh... there seems to be some lines in /var/log/Xorg.0.log about my logitech mouse... way too complicated to write by hand...

I will log out and back on... sometimes that frees up other windows... Then I'll add the Xorg.0.log.

slac-in-the-box · 07-20-2011, 12:33 AM

I had to use ctrl-alt-backspace to shutdown X, and there were error messages not normally there when I shutdown X (but I don't know if this is because of my problem, or because I used ctrl-alt-backspace) I didn't write them all down by hand, but here are a couple of them:

Code:

(firefox-bin: 3197):  Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA_gtk_window_get_events: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
Error:  No running window found
Blueman-applet:  Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0

So I logged back in using a different window manager (hadn't tried that yet), and so far, in KDE, all has worked for the first few minutes; it worked for a while in xfce4 as well, so this doesn't mean anything yet, other than I can now copy and paste logs!

-So this is the last few lines of Xorg.0.log, and seems just like X finding a mouseand not really any errors:

Code:

 26934.015] (**) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
[ 26934.015] (**) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: always reports core events
[ 26934.015] (**) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event5"
[ 26934.022] (--) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons
[ 26934.022] (--) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: Found scroll wheel(s)
[ 26934.022] (--) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: Found relative axes
[ 26934.022] (--) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
[ 26934.022] (II) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: Configuring as mouse
[ 26934.022] (II) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: Adding scrollwheel support
[ 26934.022] (**) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[ 26934.022] (**) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[ 26934.022] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
[ 26934.022] (**) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[ 26934.022] (**) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: (accel) acceleration profile 0
[ 26934.022] (**) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[ 26934.022] (**) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[ 26934.022] (II) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: initialized for relative axes.
[ 26934.022] (II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse (/dev/input/mouse0)
[ 26934.022] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
[ 26934.028] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Speakup (/dev/input/event0)
[ 26934.028] (**) Speakup: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 26934.028] (**) Speakup: Applying InputClass "keyboard-all"
[ 26934.028] (**) Speakup: always reports core events
[ 26934.028] (**) Speakup: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
[ 26934.034] (--) Speakup: Found keys
[ 26934.034] (II) Speakup: Configuring as keyboard
[ 26934.034] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Speakup" (type: KEYBOARD)
[ 26934.034] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 26934.034] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[ 26934.034] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 26934.034] (**) Option "xkb_options" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
[ 26955.383] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 8508
[ 26955.383] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[ 26955.383] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1366x768"x0.0   72.00  1366 1414 1446 1494  768 771 777 803 -hsync -vsync (48.2 kHz)
[ 26973.044] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 8508
[ 26973.044] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[ 26973.044] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1366x768"x0.0   72.00  1366 1414 1446 1494  768 771 777 803 -hsync -vsync (48.2 kHz)

Not sure if that helps... If there are any other logs I could be looking to please advise... When my computer doesn't work properly, my pulse rate goes up, and I live under cloud of anxiety... I hope I don't have a stroke... All assistance rendered is greatly appreciated.

slac-in-the-box · 07-20-2011, 12:39 AM

OK... I was scrolling LQ in firefox window in KDE, and instead of text scrolling through window, window started moving all around desktop strangely... now I can't click and had to use tab to get here... so now I know that problem persists in other WM...

I'll start using konqueror to check back on this thread...

maybe it's a firefox thing...

Diantre · 07-20-2011, 12:49 AM

Try changing the mouse. I've had similar problems with faulty mice before, eg, jumping pointer, buttons not responding, etc.

Also, in Xorg.0.log, look for the (EE) markers for errors.

kingbeowulf · 07-20-2011, 01:30 AM

If not a bad mouse, then try different mouse drivers. For my USB Logitech KB and mouse combo

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6"
EndSection

This seems to work better than letting the automagical evdev control it for my system. I have also seen cases on another system where udev flips out (I think) and "/dev/input/eventx" suddenly changes what event number "x" is being used.

slac-in-the-box · 07-20-2011, 01:46 AM

Quote:

Try changing the mouse.

Ah... the obvious.. no wonder I overlooked it!

And it appears to have been the problem: although I don't have another usb mouse lying about, I just disconnected it and am using the trackpad (that i'm not fond of), and it has been working for an entire 30 minutes without freezing...

I'll go ahead and keep testing for a day, just to be on the safe side, and then I'll mark this thread as solved!!!

If the problem recurs, I'll try changing mouse driver... but I don't think it's that, because I've been using the same mouse with this laptop for many months without issue...

At least this forced me to upgrade to 13.37, even if I didn't have to.

TY Diantre and beowulf999.