[BRLTTY] no input from braille keys under some conditions

[Michael Katzmann]

michael at raspberrypi:~ $ systemctl status brltty.service
● brltty.service - Braille Device Support
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/brltty.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 1970-01-01 00:00:03 UTC; 46 years 6
months ago
     Docs: man:brltty(1)
           http://mielke.cc/brltty/
 Main PID: 640 (brltty)
   CGroup: /system.slice/brltty.service
           └─640 /sbin/brltty -P /run/brltty.pid


On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Michael Katzmann <mkat at nlsbph.org> wrote:

> Yes, that's the point... I get no log file if brltty is started bt systemd
> with "Type=forking".
>
> I added api to the "log-level" option
> log-level       debug,inpkts,outpkts,brlkeys,brldrv,api
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
>
>> [quoted lines by Michael Katzmann on 2016/07/30 at 11:59 -0400]
>>
>> >I finally got it by changing the option from "Type=forking" to
>> "Type=idle" in
>> >the [Service]" section of the service definition file.
>>
>> Then something else must be worng. With Type=forking, what does the log
>> contain
>> and what does systemctl status say?
>>
>> >here are the two logs, one from boot (with no responsiveness from the
>> braille
>> >keys) and one after restart of the service where it does. It looks like
>> brltty
>> >is throwing away the input for the braille keys for some reason (sees dot
>> >three but treats it as a NOOP)...
>>
>> Please try also enabling the api log category.
>>
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