Bug 526366
Summary: | applications hang when trying to connect to /dev/gpmctl | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Josh Hunt <josh> |
Component: | gpm | Assignee: | Jaromír Cápík <jcapik> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-daemons |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | 5.3 | CC: | buysse, josh, kiran, lacombar, ovasik, rvokal |
Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Rebase |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Rebase: Bug Fixes and Enhancements | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2014-06-02 13:08:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Josh Hunt
2009-09-30 00:57:15 UTC
Correcting summary. It's not that gpm hangs, but applications are hanging due to gpm. This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?". This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. From Fedora 16, restarting gpm did the trick: # sudo service gpm restart Hello Josh. I just tried to do a local update to 1.20.3 and 1.20.4. Results: I was able to reproduce the issue with 1.20.3. I was unable to reproduce the issue with 1.20.4. I'm gonna read the debian thread you mentioned in the additional info and apply relevant patches. Thank you for the report. Regards, Jaromir. Apparently the code went through a massive redesign with 1.20.3 release and it's impossible to solve the issue by adopting patches from the mentioned thread or other sites. The differential patch has nearly 1MB in size. Moreover the library version changed from 1.19.0 to 2.0.0 between the relevant releases (1.20.1 - 1.20.4) and we would have to rebuild all packages linked against libgpm. I'm gonna discuss this issue with the previous gpm maintainer, but it seems there's no easy solution for this issue. We could potentially introduce more serious problems with such update. This bug/component is not included in scope for RHEL-5.11.0 which is the last RHEL5 minor release. This Bugzilla will soon be CLOSED as WONTFIX (at the end of RHEL5.11 development phase (Apr 22, 2014)). Please contact your account manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug. Thank you for submitting this request for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. We've carefully evaluated the request, but are unable to include it in RHEL5 stream. If the issue is critical for your business, please provide additional business justification through the appropriate support channels (https://access.redhat.com/site/support). The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days |