Hi, I had few lockups and hard crashes with gpm previously.
1. conflict with PCMCIA on Toshiba notebook (2.2 kernel) --> Solution: changed sequence of of daemon in rc?.d/. (I think gpm -> PCMCIA was good, but I forgot) Also inserting BASH script with readline between these daemon initiations avoided problem. (Do not ask me why) I think this was console freeze and I did login from LAN to halt the system. (That was Redhat 6.1 or so. ) 2. One of the test kernel of 2.4 on SMP (BP-6/Celeronx2) crashed with gpm. Killed gpm and waiting for new version of kernel. (This was not just a hang up but really hard kernel crash. This is woody.) I never had any other deamon caused this serious problem. I feel gpm seems to be fragile piece. Good luck. Osamu On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 06:38:22PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > Does anyone know why gpm would completely hang > console logins on a machine? I can still login remotely, > and if I kill gpm I can then get a console. > > This would seem to be very bad behavior on gpm's part. > > It first happened after a dselect update on the > woody dist back in August. I've been doing updates > on a regular basis hoping the problem would just go > away (the few hours I had to play with it were what > led me to the above remote login solution, which has > been enough to get by with this machine for awhile) > as they usually do. > > Even if things have drastically changed, even if the > config file is f***ed, one would not expect a mouse > daemon to completely block console command line logins! > > Any suggestions for a bandaide until the underlying > problem goes away? > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Use Linux: A computer Dale Amon, CEO/MD > is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd > to waste. Belfast, Northern Ireland > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > -- + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3D92 C3F8 EA94 D5DE 453D + + === http://www.aokiconsulting.com ======= Cupertino, CA USA === +
