Your message dated Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:25:56 -0600
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and subject line Re: Bug#570448: gpm fails silently
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regarding gpm fails silently
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Package: gpm
Version: 1.20.4-3.3
Severity: important
This update to gpm has broken my mouse support.
gpm seems to load (although initialy I saw crashes).
It seems to run as
gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t exps2
taken from /etc/gpm.conf. (It is hard to write this with no cut & paste)
/var/log/messages says "started gpm successfully ..."
There is, however no cursor although clicking button 1 produces inverse
video character block in centre of screen on tty. Mouse/ball movement
has no effect. Of course, there is nothing under X either.
lshal shows ImExPS2 Logitech Explorer Mouse.
/etc/init/gpm strace fails, although I can run under strace manually.
Without a mouse, can't really use X, so a rather serious bug.... :-(
Sorry that there isn't much to go on in this report thus far...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-rc8_exact-60597-gb0483e7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 3.2.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.15.5.6 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgpm2 1.20.4-3.3 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii ucf 3.0025 Update Configuration File: preserv
gpm recommends no packages.
gpm suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
* gpm/responsiveness:
* gpm/repeat_type: none
* gpm/append:
* gpm/restart: false
* gpm/sample_rate:
* gpm/device: /dev/input/mice
* gpm/type: exps2
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--- Begin Message ---
> In short, I can't reproduce the problem. Maybe I touched the mouse
> during a critical initialisation and hit a race/deadlock. Maybe the
> hardware itself latched up somehow: it certainly looks like something
> of that sort.
OK, closing the bug now. Thanks for the followup,
--
Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/
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