Fatal Error: Too many input devices (git master)

[Eamon Walsh]

Peter Hutterer wrote:
> Eamon Walsh wrote:
>   
>> I'm able to crash a "bare" X server after it resets several times.
>>
>> Server stderr and logfile attached.  The PreInit errors in the stderr 
>> output might be related to the problem.
>>
>> Will open a bugzilla next week if necessary.
>>
>>     
>
> Yeah, I've seen this before.
> IIRC this is caused by the devices not resetting properly on a server
> restart. The hal code then initialises them each time again, until the
> ids run out.
>
> I haven't had time to look at it yet, but I'd put my bets on either
> evdev not disabling and deleting the device when it fails to initialise
> or the server just ignoring the return code. My bet is on the first.
>   

Opened https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14418


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