Bug 46130
| Summary: | gpm initscript ignores nonstandard mouse device | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Michael Chapman <redhat-bugzilla> |
| Component: | gpm | Assignee: | Preston Brown <pbrown> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | mfarhat |
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-06-27 01:35:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i686; Nav) Description of problem: The gpm initscript (/etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm) ignores the setting of the DEVICE variable in /etc/sysconfig/gpm . If there is no /dev/mouse symlink or device node, this script fails upon startup with: gpm: oops() invoked from gpm.c(978) /dev/mouse: No such file or directory In the /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm script, one of the if...then statements has the wrong logic. To fix, apply the following patch: --- gpm.old Wed Jun 27 11:22:22 2001 +++ gpm Wed Jun 27 11:22:30 2001 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ MOUSETYPE=ms fi - if [ -n "$DEVICE" ]; then + if [ -z "$DEVICE" ]; then DEVICE="/dev/mouse" fi How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: % su Password: # cd /dev # mv mouse mouse1 ... edit /etc/sysconfig/gpm so that it has the line DEVICE="/dev/mouse1" # /sbin/service gpm restart Additional info: I encountered this bug while configuring my system to use devfs. On most systems, /dev/mouse mouse will be a symlink to the real mouse device (eg, /dev/psaux), so this bug will not be apparent.