Bug#470882: closed by Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org> (Bug#470882: fixed in gpm 1.20.4-1)

[Gerfried Fuchs]

reopen 470882
thanks

* Debian Bug Tracking System <owner at bugs.debian.org> [2008-06-25 08:02:34 CEST]:
>    * Debian broke ABI compatibility with upstream long time ago, the patch
>      got merged upstream recently but the new field was added in a different
>      place in the structure. With the new 1.20.3~pre3 release Debian had
>      to be either incompatible with previous Debian gpm versions or with
>      upstream again, but quite helpfully upstream bumped the SONAME.
>      (Closes: #412927, #470882, #473496, #476431)

 Unfortunately the ABI compatibility doesn't seem to be the cause for
the problem I reported:

|  Since yesterdays update of gpm in testing from 1.19.6-25 to
| 1.20.3~pre3-3 gpm regulary froze on me, making at least w3m, aptitude
| and pdmenu freeze or even segfault - not even ctrl-c was possible
| anymore when they froze.
| 
|  I /think/ that after the upgrade I only got frozen applications which
| worked for a while again after a /etc/init.d/gpm restart (until I
| completely stopped it), after a reboot today I even got segfaults in
| them, mostly when I did put my powerbook to sleep and resumed.
| 
|  Stopping gpm made the problems go away completely. If I can be of
| further help for tracking the issue down (like debug install?) don't
| hesitate to tell me. I'm not yet sure how to relyable reproduce it, but
| it happened regularly enough the last day that I consider this bugreport
| and its severity justified.

 This problem is still existent after the upgrade to the new version of
gpm from unstable (including the binNMUs for w3m and pdmenu), so I can't
call this problem fixed, sorry.

 So long,
Rhonda