Debian Bug report logs - #488053
excessive log output related to gpm

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

From: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>

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

Subject: excessive log output related to gpm

Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:51:50 +0200

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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.4-1
Severity: normal

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?

-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.4 compiled at Jun  8 2008 01:39:27
Compiler: g++ 4.3.1 20080523 (prerelease)
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.6.0
  NCurses version 5.6
  libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
  Ept support enabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.6.20080614
  cwidget version: 0.5.11
  Apt version: 4.6.0
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffe07fe000)
	libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 (0x00007fb3d82ce000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fb3d8083000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fb3d7e7e000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fb3d7b83000)
	libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007fb3d790a000)
	libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007fb3d7582000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fb3d736b000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fb3d714f000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fb3d6e43000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fb3d6bc0000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fb3d69a9000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb3d6655000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fb3d6452000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fb3d624e000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb3d859d000)
Terminal: rxvt-unicode
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:

aptitude linkage:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.14            Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                  2.7-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcwidget3            0.5.11-1          high-level terminal interface libr
ii  libept0                0.5.20            High-level library for managing De
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.1-2         GCC support library
ii  libncursesw5           5.6+20080614-1    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a     2.0.18-2          type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.1-2           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libxapian15            1.0.5-1           Search engine library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none>     (no description available)
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2    parse Debian changelogs and output

-- no debconf information


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Message #22 received at 488053@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>

To: 488053@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: excessive log output related to gpm

Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:16:37 +0200

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

Message #33 received at 488053-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: 488053-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#488053: fixed in gpm 1.20.4-3

Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:32:06 +0000

Source: gpm
Source-Version: 1.20.4-3

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_1.20.4-3.diff.gz
  to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.20.4-3.diff.gz
gpm_1.20.4-3.dsc
  to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.20.4-3.dsc
gpm_1.20.4-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.20.4-3_i386.deb
libgpm-dev_1.20.4-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gpm/libgpm-dev_1.20.4-3_i386.deb
libgpm2_1.20.4-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gpm/libgpm2_1.20.4-3_i386.deb
libgpmg1-dev_1.20.4-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gpm/libgpmg1-dev_1.20.4-3_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 488053@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Guillem Jover <guillem@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: 1.8
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:36:14 +0200
Source: gpm
Binary: gpm libgpm2 libgpm-dev libgpmg1-dev
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.20.4-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian GPM Team <pkg-gpm-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Description: 
 gpm        - General Purpose Mouse interface
 libgpm-dev - General Purpose Mouse - development files
 libgpm2    - General Purpose Mouse - shared library
 libgpmg1-dev - transitional dummy package which can be safely removed
Closes: 469933 479474 479824 480070 488053 490895 492954 493168 494924
Changes: 
 gpm (1.20.4-3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Remove myself from Uploaders.
   * Group related patches:
     - debian/patches/030_daemon_quit: Rename to ...
     - debian/patches/020_daemon_quit_noverbose.patch: ... this.
   * Demote syslog message when the gpmctl node cannot be opened to debugging
     output, that's the case when gpm is not running. And change libgpm to not
     log into syslog debugging messages. (Closes: #469933, #479474, #479824)
     (Closes: #480070, #488053, #490895, #492954, #494924)
     Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>.
     - debian/patches/015_libgpm_noverbose.patch: Replace with ...
     - debian/patches/021_libgpm_dev_gpmctl_debug_msg.patch: ... this.
     - debian/patches/022_libgpm_no_log_debug_msg.patch: New file.
   * Fix a segfault on startup produced by an off-by-one error when accessing
     the console information array due to a missmatch between some files
     using the kernel and others the gpm definition for the number of
     supported consoles. (Closes: #493168)
     Thanks to Nico Schottelius <nico-debian-pkg-gpm-devel@schottelius.org>
     and Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>.
     - debian/patches/031_max_consoles.patch: New file.
   * Update Catalan debconf translation.
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