From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 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. Additional info: