Bug 106700

Summary:	cannot start gpm
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Holger Sickenberg <holgi>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	pmladek, svollath
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Found By:	System Test	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
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Bug Blocks:	97395

Description Holger Sickenberg 2005-08-23 12:56:23 UTC

I'm trying to start gpm with

# rcgpm start

but it seams that it does not start (on i386 and x86-64).

pidof gpm does not show any output

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-23 12:58:49 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105681 ***

Comment 2 Sebastian Vollath 2005-08-23 13:12:09 UTC

Bug #105681 does not cover this issue.
The problem seems to be, that
a) /etc/sysconfig/mouse does not contain values, it's "empty"
b) gpm quits and returns 0, if called without any parameter.
So there is no error handling, if /etc/sysconfig/mouse is unconfigured.

Comment 3 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-23 13:14:23 UTC

OK ... /suse/werner> maintainer gpm
pmladek@suse.cz

Comment 4 Petr Mladek 2005-08-23 15:20:13 UTC

I agree that the the init script should print an informative error message when
the variable is not set, I'll fix it.

Though, I think that the crytical problem is that the variable is not set by
default. I think that YaST was able to detect and set default values during
installation in the past.

Comment 5 Petr Mladek 2005-08-23 16:09:08 UTC

I have fixed gpm, so the init script prints error messages now.

Comment 6 Marcus Schaefer 2005-08-24 08:43:53 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100665 ***

Comment 7 Holger Sickenberg 2005-09-12 08:21:35 UTC

Error messages will be displayed now (RC1), but gpm will not start since the
variable in /etc/sysconfig/mouse is not set.

Please be sure that variable in /etc/sysconfig/mouse will be set again.

Comment 8 Marcus Schaefer 2005-09-12 08:24:12 UTC

call "yast mouse" -> save -> start GPM