Bug 106700 - cannot start gpm
Summary: cannot start gpm
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 2
Hardware: All All
: P5 - None : Critical
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Assignee: Marcus Schaefer
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Blocks: 97395
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Reported: 2005-08-23 12:56 UTC by Holger Sickenberg
Modified: 2005-09-12 08:24 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Found By: System Test
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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