Re: gpm locks out console keyboard
Hi,
I had few lockups and hard crashes with gpm previously.
1. conflict with PCMCIA on Toshiba notebook (2.2 kernel)
--> Solution: changed sequence of of daemon in rc?.d/.
(I think gpm -> PCMCIA was good, but I forgot)
Also inserting BASH script with readline between
these daemon initiations avoided problem. (Do not ask me why)
I think this was console freeze and I did login from LAN to halt
the system. (That was Redhat 6.1 or so. )
2. One of the test kernel of 2.4 on SMP (BP-6/Celeronx2) crashed with gpm.
Killed gpm and waiting for new version of kernel. (This was
not just a hang up but really hard kernel crash. This is woody.)
I never had any other deamon caused this serious problem.
I feel gpm seems to be fragile piece.
Good luck.
Osamu
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 06:38:22PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote:
> Does anyone know why gpm would completely hang
> console logins on a machine? I can still login remotely,
> and if I kill gpm I can then get a console.
>
> This would seem to be very bad behavior on gpm's part.
>
> It first happened after a dselect update on the
> woody dist back in August. I've been doing updates
> on a regular basis hoping the problem would just go
> away (the few hours I had to play with it were what
> led me to the above remote login solution, which has
> been enough to get by with this machine for awhile)
> as they usually do.
>
> Even if things have drastically changed, even if the
> config file is f***ed, one would not expect a mouse
> daemon to completely block console command line logins!
>
> Any suggestions for a bandaide until the underlying
> problem goes away?
>
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