25 Nov, 02 I lost my /dev/gpmctl control socket during a dump-restore operation. I now get the following messages at boot-time : localhost gpm: gpm startup succeeded localhost gpm[827]: oops() invoked from gpm.c(978) localhost gpm[827]: /dev/mouse: No such device At shutdown-time, I get the message : stopping console mouse services : failed I tried creating /dev/mouse through MAKEDEV, but MAKEDEV creates mouse, mouse0 ... at /dev/input. No mouse device file is created in /dev. I then tried 'ln -s /dev/input/mouse /dev/mouse', but gpm is not happy with this either - it still complains that it cannot find the /dev/mouse file. Equally importantly, the gpmctl socket is missing. How do I restore the socket ? Can anyone please help me out ? Thanks. Manish Jain emax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx