On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, [fcrozat] wrote: > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 > > > > > > ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-17-09 17:38 ------- > Ok, it seems to be caused by "connect (..., "/dev/gpmctl)" which is taking 2 > minutes to timeout.. > > Are you sure your system is not busy doing something else or than network is > already working properly ? Running top in another console might be helpful.. > > It could be also a gpm problem.. > > Try running /etc/init.d/gpm stop before running mc to see if this fixes the > problem.. > > The way startup is done now is causing X server to be displayed before all > services are started and running.. >
FWIW, I had another conversation with a cdialog user, where his dialog scripts exhibited similar behavior, when gpmd isn't running. cdialog is built against libgpm, as is mc I believe. Applying this patch to gpm solved his issue: http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/gpm-1.20.1-handle-no-gpmctl-gracefully.bz2 -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
