[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#131648: gpm: little workaraound

[Bert Lange]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-19
Followup-For: Bug #131648


After resume my laptop from standby, gpm is dead (in former versions 
there are no problems).

I get also the following syslog-message when try to restart it:
(/etc/init.d/gpm restart)

...
oops() invoked from gpm.c(1019)
...

The second try works.

Here is a little workaround.
I've added the following line in /etc/crontab:

*  *    * * *   root    /sbin/start-stop-daemon -S -x /usr/sbin/gpm \
--startas /etc/init.d/gpm start

HTH for a while.

regards
Bert


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE)

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.4.30.11    Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.8.4        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  ucf                         1.13         Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information:
* gpm/responsiveness: 50
* gpm/repeat_type: raw
* gpm/append: -2
* gpm/restart: false
* gpm/sample_rate:
* gpm/type: ps2
* gpm/device: /dev/psaux
* gpm/restart_default: false