Note: This is a public test instance of Red Hat Bugzilla. The data contained within is a snapshot of the live data so any changes you make will not be reflected in the production Bugzilla. Email is disabled so feel free to test any aspect of the site that you want. File any problems you find or give feedback at bugzilla.redhat.com.

Bug 121845

Summary:	mc shows lib/liblow.c error message
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bernd Bartmann <bernd.bartmann>
Component:	gpm	Assignee:	Eido Inoue <havill>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	leonard-rh-bugzilla
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	1.20.1-49	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2004-05-06 18:14:41 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Bernd Bartmann 2004-04-28 16:37:16 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1)
Gecko/20031114

Description of problem:
When starting mc from the text mode console I see some artefacts of an
error message between the dir panes and the bottom menu bar:

 err [lib/liblow.c(377)]:
[root@deanna home]#      Ok, no, it's an error! possibly I die! Hint:
You can

After that mc seems to work fine. The error message does not appear in
gnome-terminal.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start mc on a text mode console
2.
3.
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2004-04-29 19:11:06 UTC

That is libgpm's fault.  At least in this case it should fail
Gpm_Open silently and return -1 (plus free memory) instead of outputting
anything on the screen.