[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#266942: marked as done (gpm: postrm fails)
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Subject: gpm: Changes /dev/mouse and starts without asking, package removal fails
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Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-14
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
The new debconf questions (see bug ##266822) made me realize I had
this horrible software called gpm installed for some odd reason (might
be left-overs from the fact the original installation was made using
Knoppix). So I clicked thru the config questions (I'm using GNOME
debconf interface) and assumed the software stays disabled as it was
earlier. But no, gpm had started the daemon and overwritten /dev/mouse
with link pointing to /dev/gpmdata, which obviously caused havoc with
my X settings and turned my system into rather unusable state (as my
dualhead Radeon system has broken text consoles when X is running, see
bug #253088).
Ok, I managed to disable gpm and revert the mouse device linking. And
obviously I deciced that I want to get rid of the whole gpm package,
but apparently the package is so broken that it doesn't even allow to
be removed:
Removing gpm ...
Stopping mouse interface server: gpm not running.invoke-rc.d:
initscript gpm, action "stop" failed.
/usr/sbin/gpm: invalid option -- x
gpm 1.19.6, Thu Oct 4 00:21:21 CEST 2001
Error in the commandline specification. Try "/usr/sbin/gpm -h".
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gpm.prerm: line 16: : command not found
dpkg: error processing gpm (--purge):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
gpm
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_DK, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI
Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.31 Debian configuration management sy
hi debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
-- debconf information excluded
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From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
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Subject: Bug#266942: fixed in gpm 1.19.6-15
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Source: gpm
Source-Version: 1.19.6-15
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gpm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
gpm_1.19.6-15.diff.gz
to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.19.6-15.diff.gz
gpm_1.19.6-15.dsc
to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.19.6-15.dsc
gpm_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
libgpmg1-dev_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/gpm/libgpmg1-dev_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
libgpmg1_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/gpm/libgpmg1_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 266942@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> (supplier of updated gpm package)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:23:05 +0200
Source: gpm
Binary: libgpmg1 gpm libgpmg1-dev
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.19.6-15
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GPM Team <pkg-gpm-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Description:
gpm - General Purpose Mouse Interface
libgpmg1 - General Purpose Mouse - shared library
libgpmg1-dev - General Purpose Mouse - development files
Closes: 266822 266841 266937 266942 266983
Changes:
gpm (1.19.6-15) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Peter Samuelson ]
* gpm.config: Fix (harmless) warning if gpm.conf doesn't exist.
* gpm.postrm: move debhelper stuff to the beginning of the script.
Seems to work around debconf weirdness that causes an error exit.
(Closes: #266942)
* gpm.init: make "repeat_type=none" do what the debconf template
says it does. Thanks to Gian Piero Carrubba. (Closes: #266841)
* gpm.prerm: rewrite stop_gpm() to fix 3 bugs and improve readability:
- space after \ line continuation char
- 'gpm -x' should be 'gpm -k'
- return success, not failure, if the daemon wasn't running
(Closes: #266937)
* gpm.postinst: only set up /dev/mouse if it doesn't already exist.
It should not ever be needed anyway, and breaks the occasional
config. Also teach it about repeat_type=none and multi-level
device names like /dev/input/mice. (Closes: #266983)
* gpm.init: minor UI issues:
- print newlines after errors on start / stop targets
- if stop failed on restart, do not bother to 'sleep 3'
- propagate start failure on restart
* gpm.templates: Reword gpm/restart so as not to imply that the user
*is* necessarily in X. We actually do not know this at the time.
.
[ Guillem Jover ]
* Switched to ucf, so no more user configuration changes trashed on
update. (Closes: #266822)
* Removed debconf question about fixing an old bogus gpm.conf file
generated with gpmconfig.
.
[ Joshua Kwan ]
* Add Peter Samuelson to uploaders.
* Remove unused 'read' patch, and 'sources' file.
* Make the long descriptions a little clearer.
* Handle case where ucf is not available in the postrm by testing for its
existence first.
Files:
f366da475651be28249bfc2b9762b582 823 misc optional gpm_1.19.6-15.dsc
87c2e5065603fc5c53bf7996f2402608 51349 misc optional gpm_1.19.6-15.diff.gz
f2a7fa358824f4f19ef6443baa25ab79 187562 misc optional gpm_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
b65c74e8d8af81ca25eb265d4c8a5e06 48326 libs standard libgpmg1_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
c250753f8e1a4d23c20740c52f61a20a 50590 libdevel optional libgpmg1-dev_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
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