From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: When starting mc from the text mode console I see some artefacts of an error message between the dir panes and the bottom menu bar: err [lib/liblow.c(377)]: [root@deanna home]# Ok, no, it's an error! possibly I die! Hint: You can After that mc seems to work fine. The error message does not appear in gnome-terminal. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start mc on a text mode console 2. 3. Additional info:
That is libgpm's fault. At least in this case it should fail Gpm_Open silently and return -1 (plus free memory) instead of outputting anything on the screen.