From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040116 Description of problem: gpm fails to start with the error message: (no mouse is configured) /etc/init.d/gpm tries to use the configuration file /etc/sysconfig/mouse which does not exist. Changing /etc(init.d/gpm to use /etc/sysconfig/gpm instead solves the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gpm-1.20.1-47 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. servive gpm start Actual Results: (no mouse is configured) Additional info:
Created attachment 99683 [details] Patch changing the configuration file This patch solves the problem for me and makes the errormessage a little more informative. The original error message is reused for two different errors.
The configuration file that the init script searches for is/should be generated by the installer; the installer will be changed to generate the file again. It is not a bug for gpm to refuse to start up if /etc/sysconfig/mouse is not present; that is by design-- see the anaconda related bugs regarding /etc/sysconfig/mouse