gpm and console mouse services

Gertjan Vinkesteijn fedora.1.90 at xs4all.nl
Fri Mar 12 03:46:52 UTC 2004


David Jansen wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:18:31PM -0800, Merrill Jr. Butterman wrote:
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>>Hello everybody,
>>Boy, you guys should be charging me by the hour for
>>this he he he. Ben, I looked at services and I got the
>>message of"gpm dead but pid file exsist" on shutdown I
>>notice that "mouse console services failed in
>>shutdown" However when I restarted gpm it started
>>sucessfully. any connection? my only option I think is
>>to see why console mouse services has failed and go
>>from there. thanks again for all your help but
>>suggestions at this point are welcomed.
>>Mbutterman
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>I've seen this on a lot of machines. Seems to be related to rhgb (the
>graphical boot), which has the mouse in use during startup, and on many
>systems, gpm cannot get the mouse device while rhgb has it in use.
>
>Look in /var/log/messages for errors related to gpm startup, you might
>see something like:
>Mar  1 12:09:51 para8 gpm: gpm startup succeeded
>Mar  1 12:09:59 para8 gpm[895]: O0o.oops(): [gpm.c(949)]: 
>Mar  1 12:09:59 para8 gpm[895]: mouse initialization failed
>
>Somehow gpm still thinks it started ok, and displays the green OK sign,
>but it fails to initialize the mouse.
>
>See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109613
>The bug is marked "closed", but it is still present. However, it is
>fixed in FC2test1. Might it be possible to backport this fix (whatever
>it is) to FC1 ?
>
>David Jansen
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As my son David is, you have to be clever to find this out. Thank you, 
it works like a champ. I also removed rhgb from the grof.conf kernel line.

Thank you again, Yovko, I will try to enroll in bugzilla also now.

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