Bug#540364: gpm: source code is not chroot-friendly

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.20.4-3.1
Severity: important

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Setting up gpm (1.20.4-3.1) ...
invoke-rc.d: ----------------------------------------------------
invoke-rc.d: WARNING: invoke-rc.d called during shutdown sequence
invoke-rc.d: enabling safe mode: initscript policy layer disabled
invoke-rc.d: ----------------------------------------------------
 * Stopping mouse interface server gpm                                                                                       
O0o.oops(): [daemon/check_kill.c(42)]: Problem reading from /var/run/gpm.pid                                         
[fail]
 * Starting mouse interface server gpm                                                                                
[fail] 
invoke-rc.d: initscript gpm, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing gpm (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gpm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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As the above shows, even though GPM's init script correctly calls invoke-rc.d, 
the source code itself insists upon seeing a real usable pid number in the file,
even though this is not something that's gonna appear when unpacking packages in
a chroot, such as when preparing a filesystem image for copying to JFFS2.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.30       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgpm2                       1.20.4-3.1 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  ucf                           3.0016     Update Configuration File: preserv

gpm recommends no packages.

gpm suggests no packages.

- -- debconf information:
* gpm/responsiveness:
* gpm/repeat_type: none
* gpm/append:
* gpm/restart: true
* gpm/sample_rate:
* gpm/device: /dev/input/mice
* gpm/type: exps2

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