> To: gpm@xxxxxxxx The current gpm list is gpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx But Prosa kindly kept an alias to forward messages so this arrived anyways. > I lost my /dev/gpmctl control socket during a dump-restore operation. The socket is recreated when gpm invokes bind(). > localhost gpm[827]: /dev/mouse: No such device What you are missing is /dev/mouse. Actually, such a message hits to an existing device file with no associated driver. Unless it doesn't use errno (which would be a bug). Unfortunately, I can't find gpm_oops() in gpm-1.20.0 and you don't even tell what version are you using. But you probably didn't want to look for /dev/mouse (the defualt), but for a specific device. Your problem, thus, is that your lost your configuration. > At shutdown-time, I get the message : > stopping console mouse services : failed there is no gpm running, so it can't be killed. > either - it still complains that it cannot find the /dev/mouse file. "No such device" doesn't mean "cannot find". Please look for ENODEV in the open(2) man page. /alessandro, not the gpm maintainer any more