[BRLTTY] brltty input monitor error 19

[Zachary Kline]

I'm not familiar with this error but it would help to provide info about the specific braille device they are using. Which display is it and how is it connected to the machine? 

The sheer number of messages is rather concerning but suggests something bluetooth related, or perhaps some sort of faulty hardware, in one form or another. 

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> On Jan 24, 2024, at 10:06 AM, Colomban Wendling <cwendling at hypra.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> A client of mine is having trouble with brltty sometimes heavily spamming the logs with "braille input monitor error 19: No such device", and I'm wondering what this could actually mean is the trouble.
> 
> Also, by spamming I mean like a lot, for the last week alone he's got more than 17 million lines matching that in syslog (~500k one day, 9.1M another, and 7.6M yesterday).  When it happens, it spams insanely fast, I can count around 50k messages/second for about 5s at a time.
> 
> The client is running Debian 10 "Buster" (yeah I know, it's not up-to-date), which is brltty 5.6.10+deb10u1 [1].
> 
> As a workaround, I currently set "log-level critical" to try and not get these errors in the logs, as their rate managed to fill /var/log [2]; and because the client didn't seem to actually have issues with his braille device.
> 
> Does anybody here have clues on:
> * why does it happen?  Is something *actually* wrong, just going unnoticed by the user?
> * was it a bug that has been fixed in newer releases?  I know the client isn't using the latest version, but I'm slightly reluctant to update it just yet unless I can reasonably hope it actually fixes the issue.
> 
> Thanks for your attention, and looking forward to reading you :)
> Colomban
> 
> [1]: This is brltty 5.6.10 with a few Debian patches -- mostly backports of specific relevant commits IIUC (https://salsa.debian.org/a11y-team/brltty/-/tree/debian-buster/debian/patches?ref_type=heads)
> [2]: which is another issue that it can actually happen, but unrelated to brltty
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