David Jansen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:18:31PM -0800, Merrill Jr. Butterman wrote:
Hello everybody,
Boy, you guys should be charging me by the hour for
this he he he. Ben, I looked at services and I got the
message of"gpm dead but pid file exsist" on shutdown I
notice that "mouse console services failed in
shutdown" However when I restarted gpm it started
sucessfully. any connection? my only option I think is
to see why console mouse services has failed and go
from there. thanks again for all your help but
suggestions at this point are welcomed.
Mbutterman
I've seen this on a lot of machines. Seems to be related to rhgb (the
graphical boot), which has the mouse in use during startup, and on many
systems, gpm cannot get the mouse device while rhgb has it in use.
Look in /var/log/messages for errors related to gpm startup, you might
see something like:
Mar 1 12:09:51 para8 gpm: gpm startup succeeded
Mar 1 12:09:59 para8 gpm[895]: O0o.oops(): [gpm.c(949)]:
Mar 1 12:09:59 para8 gpm[895]: mouse initialization failed
Somehow gpm still thinks it started ok, and displays the green OK sign,
but it fails to initialize the mouse.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109613
The bug is marked "closed", but it is still present. However, it is
fixed in FC2test1. Might it be possible to backport this fix (whatever
it is) to FC1 ?
David Jansen
As my son David is, you have to be clever to find this out. Thank you,
it works like a champ. I also removed rhgb from the grof.conf kernel line.
Thank you again, Yovko, I will try to enroll in bugzilla also now.
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