Mouse&keyboard randomly not responding after update to SLED12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop SLED Updates
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I updated my HP ProBook 4525s with OEM preload SLED11 to SLED12. Looks
fine, but one issue - mouse and keyboard randomly not responding. I can
work 5 minutes or 1 hours but suddenly I lose control of OS. At the same
time, the computer does not hang, the clock is running, pictures moving,
sound is played. I can connect to SSH server and doing anything. After
some time mouse and keyboard come back responding and I can work again.
This time may be 2 minutes or 30 minutes - also randomly. I found two
regularities of come back responding (but not lose control): control
returns always if I connect to display:0 by VNC or if the screen light
out by energy saver. In /var/log/messages I has no find any correlations
of lose control…
Any suggestions?

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Hi
Random events are the hardest… normally I would try creating a new
user and see if it duplicates. If it doesn’t then it’s possibly a user
remnant from the upgrade. If it shows as the new user, then system
related. Suggest you try that first and see.

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.28-4-default
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09.11.2014 21:09, malcolmlewis wrote:[color=blue]

Hi
Random events are the hardest… normally I would try creating a new
user and see if it duplicates. If it doesn’t then it’s possibly a user
remnant from the upgrade. If it shows as the new user, then system
related. Suggest you try that first and see.
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Thank you for a reply Malcolm.
I followed your advice and created a new user. The issue appears again
for that user. Thus do a conclusion that the problem at the system level.
Did another experiment: I restored in VirtualBox HP Recovery DVD with my
OEM SLED 11 and upgraded it to SLED 12 by official DVD. In this VM I see
same issue - keyboard and mouse stop responding at random time and
sometime return. Then I created another VM and installed a clean SLED 12

  • there is no such problem.
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Hi
So it would appear to be some remnant left over from the update…

Maybe opening a couple of terminals terminal and running the
following may glean some info;

tail -f /var/log/messages

udevadm monitor

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13.11.2014 3:30, malcolmlewis wrote:[color=blue]

Hi
So it would appear to be some remnant left over from the update…

Maybe opening a couple of terminals terminal and running the
following may glean some info;

tail -f /var/log/messages
>
> udevadm monitor

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Unfortunately no useful information from monitoring and logs I have not
received. And I found out that issue is not only for me:
http://forums.suse.com/showthread.php?t=5800

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Hi
So it would appear it’s an upgrade issue, many changes with this
release, btrfs/xfs, systemd, wicked etc…

I wonder if it’s tracker doing something. Can you disable the indexing
of files in Setting Search and Indexing.

Your running the radeon driver for your GPU?

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12.01.2015 16:31, malcolmlewis wrote:[color=blue]

I wonder if it’s tracker doing something. Can you disable the indexing
of files in Setting Search and Indexing.

Your running the radeon driver for your GPU?
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Thanks for the advice, Malcolm. Unfortunately reset or disable the
trucker do not help. And yes, a use radeon driver, modern fglrx is not
suitable for my HD 4200 GPU.

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Hi
If you run the following script as root user, can you post the output
for the radeon driver;

#!/bin/sh
cat /proc/modules | cut -f 1 -d " " | while read module; do \\
echo "Module: $module"; \\
if [ -d "/sys/module/$module/parameters" ]; then \\
ls /sys/module/$module/parameters/ | while read parameter; do \\
echo -n "Parameter: $parameter --> "; \\
cat /sys/module/$module/parameters/$parameter; \\
done; \\
fi; \\
echo; \\
done

If you also open a terminal, switch to root user and run the journal to
see if something shows up;

journalctl -f

When I had my HP4525s, I ran a script to set the power option to low as
well;

Have a look here;
https://forums.opensuse.org/entry.php/142-Package-of-the-day-systemd-radeon-power_profile

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.28-4-default
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After some updates the issue was gone.

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After a lot of updates the problem gone.