Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 439136
gsynaptics-init crashes on startup
Last modified: 2008-12-06 14:25:13 EST
Description of problem: A misspelled parameter name is rejected by gsynaptics-init, which then terminates without starting daemons. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gsynaptics-0.9.12-2.1.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run gsynaptics-init --sm-disable 2. 3. Actual results: ** (gsynaptics-init:32021): WARNING **: Using synclient Unknown parameter CoastingSpeedThreashold Expected results: No error. Additional info: The history of this bug in Ubuntu is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gsynaptics/+bug/70525. Apparently, there is more to this than just the misspelling. According to the man page for synaptics(5), the proper name for the parameter is CoastingSpeed.
Created attachment 299393 [details] Patch to correct spelling of CoastingSpeed parameter This patch gets rid of the error message. gsynaptics-init completes normally, with only the warning. I haven't verified yet that it does anything, as I'm no longer quite sure what it's supposed to do.
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This is a duplicate of Bug 446502, which applies to F9, so changing the version and marking as duplicate. (Hope I've done the right thing...) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 446502 ***