Bug#488053: excessive log output related to gpm

[Paul Slootman]

On Wed 25 Jun 2008, martin f krafft wrote:
> 
> Jun 25 21:29:49 piper aptitude: *** info
> Jun 25 21:29:49 piper aptitude: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory
> Jun 25 21:29:49 piper aptitude: *** info
> Jun 25 21:29:49 piper aptitude: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory
> Jun 25 21:29:49 piper aptitude: *** err
> Jun 25 21:29:49 piper aptitude: Oh, oh, it's an error! possibly I die!
> 
> That's really just not necessary, is it? It works fine without
> gpmctl, so why make so much noise?

And that last line so so fscking childish, it looks like some late night
debugging line that was accidentally left in. At the very least, remove
that stupid text.


I also saw similar messages when using pinfo, although curiously
/dev/gpmctl was replaced by /dev/pts/0 (the controlling tty):

Sep 24 18:14:37 moordrecht pinfo: *** err 
Sep 24 18:14:37 moordrecht pinfo: /dev/pts/0: Permission denied
Sep 24 18:14:37 moordrecht pinfo: *** err 
Sep 24 18:14:37 moordrecht pinfo: Oh, oh, it's an error! possibly I die! 

I didn't notice anything wrong until logcheck bugged me about it,
so it might as well not say anything. (Why attempt something gpm-related
with /dev/pts/0 ?!)


Paul Slootman