[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#498592: Useless and misleading syslog messages about missing /dev/gpmctl

[Dmitry Semyonov]

Package: mc
Version: 2:4.6.2~git20080311-3
Severity: minor


This is what is written into /var/log/syslog every time mc is started
on remote PC (via SSH) without gpm installed (it's just unnecessary there):

Sep 11 03:14:44 stage01 mc: *** info 
Sep 11 03:14:44 stage01 mc: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory
Sep 11 03:14:44 stage01 mc: *** info 
Sep 11 03:14:44 stage01 mc: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory
Sep 11 03:14:44 stage01 mc: *** err 
Sep 11 03:14:44 stage01 mc: Oh, oh, it's an error! possibly I die! 

Looks like forgotten debug logs.

mc works fine despite the last message.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.5-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpm2                       1.20.4-2   General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libslang2                     2.1.3-3    The S-Lang programming library - r

mc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mc suggests:
pn  arj                           <none>     (no description available)
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-1    high-quality block-sorting file co
pn  dbview                        <none>     (no description available)
ii  file                          4.25-1     Determines file type using "magic"
pn  links | w3m | lynx            <none>     (no description available)
ii  mime-support                  3.44-1     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
pn  odt2txt                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  perl                          5.10.0-13  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  unzip                         5.52-12    De-archiver for .zip files
pn  xpdf                          <none>     (no description available)
pn  zip                           <none>     (no description available)

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