Bug#570448: gpm fails silently

[ael]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.20.4-3.3
Severity: important


This update to gpm has broken my mouse support. 
gpm seems to load (although initialy I saw crashes).

It seems to run as
   gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t exps2
taken from /etc/gpm.conf.  (It is hard to write this with no cut & paste)
/var/log/messages says "started gpm successfully ..."
There is, however no cursor although clicking button 1 produces inverse
video character block in centre of screen on tty. Mouse/ball movement
has no effect. Of course, there is nothing under X either.
lshal shows ImExPS2 Logitech Explorer Mouse.
/etc/init/gpm strace fails, although I can run under strace manually.

Without a mouse, can't really use X, so a rather serious bug.... :-(

Sorry that there isn't much to go on in this report thus far...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-rc8_exact-60597-gb0483e7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.28         Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils               3.2.2          Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                      1.15.5.6       Debian package management system
ii  install-info              4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libc6                     2.10.2-2       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgpm2                   1.20.4-3.3     General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-23         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  ucf                       3.0025         Update Configuration File: preserv

gpm recommends no packages.

gpm suggests no packages.

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