Debian Bug report logs - #130133
gpm: Upgrade broke PS/2 mouse

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mark Carroll <mark@chaos.x-philes.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: gpm: Upgrade broke PS/2 mouse

Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:06:53 -0500

Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-9
Severity: normal

gpm's currently reporting,

Jan 20 10:58:31 niagara /usr/sbin/gpm[593]: PS/2 mouse failed init
Jan 20 10:58:31 niagara /usr/sbin/gpm[593]: oops() invoked from gpm.c(1019)
Jan 20 10:58:31 niagara /usr/sbin/gpm[593]: mouse initialization failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

I sync with "testing" fairly frequently, so the upgrade that broke gpm
for me probably happened this month.

The uncommented lines in my /etc/gpm.conf read,

device=/dev/psaux
type=ps2
append=""
repeat_type=msc

Downgrading back to gpm 1.17.8-18.1 fixes the problem, so I'm not
horribly indisposed while this remains pending. Other system
information is,

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux niagara 2.2.19 #2 Sun Oct 21 17:22:30 EDT 2001 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages gpm depends on:
ii  debianutils    1.15           Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian.
ii  libc6          2.2.4-7        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone

I hope that's helpful! Thanks,
                               Mark

Message #14 received at 130133-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: warp@debian.org (Zephaniah E. Hull)

To: 130133-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#130133: fixed in gpm 1.19.6-10

Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:02:08 -0500

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gpm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

gpm_1.19.6-10.diff.gz
  to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.19.6-10.diff.gz
gpm_1.19.6-10.dsc
  to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.19.6-10.dsc
gpm_1.19.6-10_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.19.6-10_i386.deb
libgpmg1-dev_1.19.6-10_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gpm/libgpmg1-dev_1.19.6-10_i386.deb
libgpmg1_1.19.6-10_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gpm/libgpmg1_1.19.6-10_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 130133@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@debian.org> (supplier of updated gpm package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 20:40:49 -0500
Source: gpm
Binary: libgpmg1-dev libgpmg1 gpm
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.19.6-10
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: critical
Maintainer: Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@debian.org>
Changed-By: Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@debian.org>
Description: 
 gpm        - General Purpose Mouse Interface
 libgpmg1   - General Purpose Mouse Library [libc6]
 libgpmg1-dev - General Purpose Mouse Library, development files [libc6]
Closes: 87096 121206 128780 129063 129471 129757 130133 130275 131648
Changes: 
 gpm (1.19.6-10) unstable; urgency=critical
 .
   * The fuck it all to hell release.
   * Change the priority from standard to optional.
   * Drop the non-blocking IO, just kill ourselves if in the init sequence a
     read or write takes more then 1 second.
     (closes: #129063, #129471, #130133, #130275, #131648, #128780, #121206)
   * Move gpm_has_mouse_control to /usr/lib/gpm. (closes: #87096)
   * Default to not restarting gpm when X has control during upgrade.
     (closes: #129757)
   * Change the init sequence more. Kernels are BROKEN.
Files: 
 dd72b0c12e9fc40dee663006b3a5bc5f 728 misc optional gpm_1.19.6-10.dsc
 b4ccc0d1f9d1dac9841ba63b983e3f47 42875 misc optional gpm_1.19.6-10.diff.gz
 e0daeee0d94ff5302d67950581d2e013 144356 misc optional gpm_1.19.6-10_i386.deb
 3bee811783e238b30f1f1eb6d67e10fe 44898 libs optional libgpmg1_1.19.6-10_i386.deb
 58d621d72809d35aebbc4d0f781477d8 47276 devel optional libgpmg1-dev_1.19.6-10_i386.deb

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Message #19 received at 130133@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mark Carroll <mark@chaos.x-philes.com>

To: 130133@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#130133 acknowledged by developer (Bug#130133: fixed in gpm 1.19.6-10)

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:15:31 -0500 (EST)

Yes, upgrading both gpm and libgpmg1 to 1.19.6-10 seems to have fixed it -
thanks!

-- Mark

Message #26 received at 130133@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mark Carroll <mark@chaos.x-philes.com>

To: 130133@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: gpm: Upgrade breaks PS2 mouse

Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:51:13 -0500 (EST)

Curiously, the fix didn't seem to last. I've no idea why not; my
configuration remains unchanged, but 1.19.6-10 stopped working for me.

gpm and libgpmg1 1.19.6-11 still exhibit the same problem;
the mouse just does nothing. Some syslog evidence includes:

Apr  2 08:34:17 niagara /usr/sbin/gpm[296]: write_ps2: 4 0, 8
Apr  2 08:34:17 niagara /usr/sbin/gpm[296]: write_ps2: 4 1, 0
Apr  2 08:34:17 niagara /usr/sbin/gpm[296]: write_ps2: 4 2, 0
Apr  2 08:34:17 niagara /usr/sbin/gpm[296]: PS/2 mouse failed init
Apr  2 08:34:17 niagara /usr/sbin/gpm[296]: oops() invoked from gpm.c(1019)
Apr  2 08:34:17 niagara /usr/sbin/gpm[296]: mouse initialization failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

It's still not too big a deal for me; downgrading to 1.17.8-18.1
still fixes the problem.

Apologies for the delay in reporting this; things have been busy.

FWIW my kernel is 2.2.19 and my libc6 is 2.2.5-3.

-- Mark

Message #31 received at 130133@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: <turtle.power@wanadoo.es>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <130133@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: gpm: but works from commandline for me using ps2 protocol

Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:52:15 +0200

Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-12

Yeah I'm disapointed using any protocol (ps2 or imps2) in gpm.conf and
runing /etc/init.d/gpm start give this error and from cmdline with imps2
protocol.
but setting 

gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2

work as usual
I hope that info is useful

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux iglu 2.4.18 #1 mar feb 26 22:07:05 CET 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=es_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES@euro

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debianutils              1.16            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                    2.2.4-4         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand

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