Bug#476431: Bug#470882: /dev/gpmctl freezes acknowledge

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> [2008-10-09 23:59:43 CEST]:
> Thomas Dickey, le Wed 08 Oct 2008 20:00:32 -0400, a écrit :
> > With the latest update, ncurses won't try to use gpm if $TERM doesn't
> > contain "linux", unless it's overridden (with a new environment variable).
> 
> Ah, indeed.  Rhonda, Zito or Simon, could you check whether upgrading
> your libncurses5 and libncursesw5 to 5.6+20081004-1 fixes the bug?  I
> think that should fix it for the usual cases.

 These packages are currently installed:

w3m 0.5.2-2+b1, Versions of packages w3m depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.7-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgc1c2               1:6.8-1.1         conservative garbage collector for
ii  libgpm2                1.20.4-2          General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20081004-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8g-13         SSL shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

 Doesn't solve the issue, unfortunately. I've upgraded all my ncurses
packages, after that started gpm and did run and quit
'w3m http://nm.debian.org/' exactly seven times (reproducible), likewise
with pdmenu:

#v+
rhonda at edna:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/gpm start
Starting mouse interface server: gpm.
rhonda at edna:~$ pdmenu 
rhonda at edna:~$ pdmenu 
rhonda at edna:~$ pdmenu 
rhonda at edna:~$ pdmenu 
rhonda at edna:~$ pdmenu 
rhonda at edna:~$ pdmenu 
rhonda at edna:~$ pdmenu 
#v-

 Did press x and enter in the started pdmenu, the last one just hangs
and doesn't start until gpm is stopped again.

 Thanks for keeping an eye on it, if there's more I can do, just let me
know.

 So long,
Rhonda