Ubuntu
gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #546503
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 546503

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Erik Stambaugh (squinky) wrote :

It happened again, and this time I'm pretty sure it's not a kernel issue.

After a reboot, I lost the ability to move the mouse cursor, except it was working in GDM. This time additional reboots are not fixing it.

However, I launched the xterm-only session from GDM, and was able to launch Nautilus and my panels and any number of regular apps I use without issue. The mouse works fine. But if I go back to a regular or failsafe GNOME session, the mouse freezes up again. Restart GDM, and I can go back into an xterm session and the mouse comes back.

This bug is most likely in one of the background tasks that's launched by gnome-session, and definitely (from what I can tell) not in the kernel.