Upon starting it in a gnome-terminal, I get: *** debug ***: [/usr/src/build/78046-i386/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c(202)]: Might be a gpm bug, I suppose.
Yep, looks like gpm debug code. I just looked at liblow.c and line 202 contains: gpm_report(GPM_PR_DEBUG,"VC: %d",flag); It's probably something that should be commented out or wrapped with an ifdef I'm guessing. Reassigning to gpm component.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 60814 ***