Bug#470882: gpm freezes and makes other applications freeze/segfault

[Gerfried Fuchs]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.20.3~pre3-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

        Hi!

 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.

 Thanks,
Rhonda

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-powerpc
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.19        Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                2.28.4        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                      2.7-6         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgpmg1                   1.20.3~pre3-3 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  lsb-base                   3.1-24        Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  ucf                        3.005         Update Configuration File: preserv

gpm recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* gpm/responsiveness:
* gpm/repeat_type: none
* gpm/append:
  gpm/restart: false
* gpm/sample_rate:
* gpm/type: exps2
* gpm/device: /dev/input/mice