Hi, I upgraded my Woody laptop today with 'apt-get update' followed by 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. It went well, except that the gpm upgrade started a gpm process when there was none running before the upgrade. I would have expected the gpm installation to not start gpm unless it was already running. Is this a bug?
I'm a relatively new Debian user, so please tell me if I'm off in the weeds. Cheers! Shyamal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes: The problem is related to the fact that gpm does not play well with the X server on my Compaq Armada laptop. I have set up run level 3 (my default run level) through 5, with a K20gpm file and a S20gdm etc. to start X but no gpm. Run level 2 is set up to run gpm but no X server, and every once in a while I need that. Excerpts from the dist-upgrade typescript follow. It was run in a terminal console at run level 3 (X running, no gpm, and I do not login as root via gdm): madcow:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade ...[deleted].... The following NEW packages will be installed: libgtkhtml20 python2.2 83 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 57.1MB of archives. After unpacking 11.6MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y^M ...[deleted].... Get:17 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main gpm 1.19.6-9 [144kB] ...[deleted].... Preparing to replace gpm 1.19.6-5 (using .../archives/gpm_1.19.6-9_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gpm ... .....[deleted].... Setting up gpm (1.19.6-9) ... Stopping mouse interface server: gpm. Starting mouse interface server: gpm. ....[deleted]....
