Bug 83691 - Not that great error message from gpm
Summary: Not that great error message from gpm
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gpm
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-02-07 04:20 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2007-03-27 04:00 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 1.20.1-36
Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2003-07-29 15:23:40 UTC

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Description Michal Jaegermann 2003-02-07 04:20:27 UTC 
Description of problem:

If /dev/mouse does not exist an attempt to run gpm produces
this "interesting" message:

gpm: oops() invoked from gpm.c(984)

Eh?  "Please use option -m" or "Create /dev/mouse link" would be
somewhat more informative.

Moreover this does not seem to be printed on either stderr or stdout
as attempts to redirect that fail (or bash redirection is shot? - I
actually do not know).

gpm-1.19.3-25
Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2003-07-29 15:23:40 UTC 
The gpm oops msgs have been changed for 1.20.1
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