Bug 60730

Summary:	psmouse spamming system log with error messages
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Adam Williamson (adamw)
Component:	Input Devices	Assignee:	drivers_input-devices
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	high
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	3.10.5	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Adam Williamson 2013-08-11 18:38:52 UTC

I'm running Fedora 19 on a Dell XPS 13 (developer edition, the one that ships pre-loaded with Ubuntu). I just filed this bug with systemd as a journal rate limiting issue - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68000 - but it occurred to me it may be considered a bug on the kernel side too.

My system logs got huge, so huge journald waved a little white flag and died; looking through the logs, I see literally hundreds per second, at some points, of these:

Jun 27 02:53:35 laptop.localdomain kernel: psmouse serio1: Trackpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynced.
Jun 27 02:53:35 laptop.localdomain kernel: psmouse serio1: Trackpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
Jun 27 02:53:35 laptop.localdomain kernel: psmouse serio1: Trackpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynced.
Jun 27 02:53:35 laptop.localdomain kernel: psmouse serio1: Trackpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1

It looks like I was on 3.9.6-301.fc19.x86_64 at that time, but dmesg shows it's still happening now, with 3.10.5-201.fc19.x86_64 .