#121741 gpm: connect attempt failed

Package:
gpm
Source:
gpm
Description:
General Purpose Mouse interface
Submitter:
Gergely Nagy
Date:
2005-07-18 03:31:41 UTC
Severity:
normal
#121741#5
Date:
2001-11-29 17:11:09 UTC
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To:
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.