From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020314 Description of problem: Starting programs like "links" or "mc" in a virtual console gives an error reported by "gpm" : *** debug ***: [/usr/src/build/78046-i386/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c(202)]: VC: 0 info: [/usr/src/build/78046-i386/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c(446)]: Warning: closing connection Running "links" or "mc" as root gives a slightly shorter error message : *** debug ***: [/usr/src/build/78046-i386/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c(202)]: VC: 0 Disabling "gpm" (/etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm stop) and then running "mc" or "links" gives another kind of error : *** debug ***: [/usr/src/build/78046-i386/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c(202)]: VC: 0 info: [/usr/src/build/78046-i386/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c(319)]: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory === ERROR ===: [/usr/src/build/78046-i386/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c(326)]: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory === ERROR ===: [/usr/src/build/78046-i386/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c(370)]: Oh, oh, it's an error! possibly I die! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. go to a virtual console (ctrl-alt-f4). 2. log in 3. start links with "links 2>foobar" 4. "cat foobar" and observe error Actual Results: file called foobar is created with the error from 'gpm' Expected Results: Links or Midnight Commander should have started normally without giving the 'gpm' error Additional info: gpm-1.20.0-1 elinks-0.3.0-1 mc-4.5.55-1
This particular error was fixed in 1.20.0-2.
*** Bug 63437 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 100675 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There's another annoying gpm error message that still shows up in aumix. I guess I'll file another bug for it (although I'm not going to do that yet because I first need to see if someone else has already filed another bug).