Bug 122336

Summary: ncurses whithout gpm breaks console apps
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Matt Phillips <mattp+rh>
Component: ncursesAssignee: Eido Inoue <havill>
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Fixed In Version: 5.4-5 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Matt Phillips 2004-05-03 13:34:33 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Apps such as "dialog" that rely on ncurses behave badly when run from
the console if /dev/gpmctl doesn't exist.  An error message (below) is
output to stderr.  The same applications work fine run not from the
console.  Recompiling ncurses without gpm support solves this.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ncurses >= 5.3-5  (this was an issue in FC1 as well)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a machine without a mouse (or possibly stop gpm, just make
sure that /dev/gpmctl doesn't exist)
2. From the console, run:
dialog --msgbox "Hello World" 0 0 2>/tmp/foo
3. cat /tmp/foo


Actual Results:  The following is output to stderr from ncurses:
*** info [lib/liblow.c(326)]:
/dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory
*** err [lib/liblow.c(333)]:
/dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory
*** err [lib/liblow.c(377)]:
Oh, oh, it's an error! possibly I die!

Expected Results:  No error.

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