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
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On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 18:18, 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.
Not too sure with gpm. Are you running a laptop with multiple mouse devices (Eg. trackpad and external mouse), or do you use a bus mouse?
If you are unlikely to use the mouse in text mode (I never do), you can just disable the service. As root,
chkconfig gpm off
Cheers, Ben
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Ben Stringer -
Merrill Jr. Butterman