I viewed a manual page from mc, and when I exited, mc freezed. Not only the mc on that console, but all two of them. Killing them, logging out and back solved the problem, in the logs, I have these entries: Nov 29 13:10:57 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Skipping a data packet (?) Nov 29 13:10:57 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/1 Nov 29 13:10:57 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/1 Nov 29 13:10:57 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/1 Nov 29 13:10:57 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/1 Nov 29 13:10:57 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/1 Nov 29 13:11:21 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/1 Nov 29 13:11:21 iluvatar mc: Warning: closing connection Nov 29 13:11:28 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/2 Nov 29 13:11:28 iluvatar mc: Warning: closing connection Nov 29 13:11:43 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/1 Nov 29 13:11:43 iluvatar mc: Warning: closing connection Nov 29 13:11:48 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/2 Nov 29 13:11:48 iluvatar mc: Warning: closing connection Nov 29 13:11:50 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/2 Nov 29 13:11:50 iluvatar mc: Warning: closing connection Nov 29 13:11:53 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/1 Nov 29 13:11:55 iluvatar mc: Warning: closing connection Nov 29 13:11:59 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/1 Nov 29 13:11:59 iluvatar mc: Warning: closing connection Nov 29 13:12:02 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/2 Nov 29 13:12:02 iluvatar mc: Warning: closing connection Nov 29 13:12:04 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/1 Nov 29 13:12:04 iluvatar mc: Warning: closing connection Nov 29 13:12:20 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/1 Nov 29 13:12:20 iluvatar mc: Warning: closing connection Nov 29 13:12:26 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/2 Nov 29 13:12:26 iluvatar mc: Warning: closing connection Nov 29 13:12:28 iluvatar /usr/sbin/gpm[266]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1004 for /dev/vc/1 Nov 29 13:12:28 iluvatar mc: Warning: closing connection `Skipping data packet (?)' appears quite frequently in my logs. I'm using a three-button logitech mouse, which worked fine with all previous versions of gpm (and with -5 too, except the above incident). My /etc/gpm.conf, as generated by gpmconfig, is this: # /etc/gpm.conf - configuration file for gpm(1) device=/dev/tts/0 responsiveness= type=ms append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\"" repeat_type= This may be related to #113663: repeater overflow, though I'm not sure as I didn't look at the sources.