Once in every so often boots I end up in X without a functioning mouse. A reboot
will fix it, but I have had this behavior for a few years now and still no clue
what the origin of the problem is. dmesg reports as it does normally:

PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

killing and restarting X and/or gpm doesn't work.

I have been storing dmesgs at failures:
2007-08-29
2007-09-15
2007-11-23
(I boot twice a day on average)

As you can see, today I had one. I also made a copy of my /proc and /sys
directories. (I am guessing /proc was not needed)maybe any info can still be
extracted?

Is there anything that I could do to provide more info when this occurs next
time?

Thanks

Roel