"tap to click" unchecked

Hi everyone,
after the latest update, each time I reboot my MacBook, my "tapping" doesn't work. Each time, "tap to click" is unchecked in the System Prefersences.
It never did like this before. Why now? What's going on?

See
<https://discussions.apple.com/message/13320183#13320183>
Btw, repairing permissions is usually not necessary, but it may help running it after a system update.

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