hal 0.5.11 completely stalls X

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 20:18 +0000, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> The most recent updates to sysutils/hal have rendered my X unusable and 
> I am trying find out how to fix this. My system is running 6-STABLE/i386 
> with KDE launched via kdm. After upgrading to sysutils/hal 0.5.11 and 
> sysutils/policykit 0.7, my X has started misbehaving: All input and 
> output processing (including disk I/O) is stalled unless I move the mouse.
> 
> When my session is starting up, I type something into a window or an 
> application produces some new output, I have to wiggle the mouse to 
> actually see changes happen on my screen. Most annoyingly, no mouse 
> button events are generated either when the mouse is not in motion. 
> Thus, I can drag (mouse-down, move, mouse-up), but cannot click on 
> anything (mouse-down, mouse-up).
> 
> After downgrading sysutils/hal to 0.5.8.20080203 and sysutils/policykit 
> to 0.1.20060514_4, the problem goes away (the two ports can only be 
> downgraded together as they depend on particular versions of each other).
> 
> Unfortunately, sysutils/hal 0.5.11 does not produce any error messages 
> while stalling the system, making it impossible for me to figure out 
> what is going on. I am hoping that someone on this list will be able to 
> point me in the right direction.
> 
> Of course, I have tried restarting X and rebooting. I have also tried 
> two different mice - my laptop's built-in touchpad and a USB mouse; both 
> lead to the same stalls.

This issue has been discussed on freebsd-x11 at .  Patches are available.
Consult the archives of that list.

Joe

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