Debian Bug report logs - #490802
w3m: syslogs complaining about lack of /dev/gpmctl

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From: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>

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

Subject: w3m: syslogs complaining about lack of /dev/gpmctl

Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:15:04 +0100

Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.2-2+b1
Severity: normal

I get errors like the following:

Jul 14 13:06:50 soba w3m: *** info 
Jul 14 13:06:50 soba w3m: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory
Jul 14 13:06:50 soba w3m: *** err 
Jul 14 13:06:50 soba w3m: Oh, oh, it's an error! possibly I die! 

logged to /var/log/syslog when I run w3m on the console. I do not have
GPM installed. I can't see any justification for w3m deciding to log to
syslog, nor do I particularly care that it can't talk to GPM. The
program functions fine (ie it didn't die like it thought it might).

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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 w3m depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgc1c2               1:6.8-1.1         conservative garbage collector for
ii  libgpm2                1.20.4-2          General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20080308-1    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8g-10.1       SSL shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages w3m recommends:
ii  ca-certificates               20080617   Common CA certificates

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