On system boot i got this error mesasge *** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]: /dev/gpmct1: No such file or directory When the system has finished boot process /dev/gpmctl is available under /dev. So i seems it is created to late at boot up. Maybe a wrong order in some init files. I found an old issue #23278 concerning this which was solved by adding "need local" in /etc/init.d/gpm Now need local is not in /etc/init.d/gpm anymore. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
which script triggered this message?
(In reply to comment #1) > which script triggered this message? > it appears between service gpm started and service splash started
It seems that the error has disappeared, unfortunately i don't know why. Maybe it is a sporadic error. It did not appear the last three times i have booted.
(In reply to comment #3) > It seems that the error has disappeared, unfortunately i don't know why. > Maybe it is a sporadic error. It did not appear the last three times i have > booted. > Today it happened again, maybe it is a problem with the parallel startup of init scripts, so sometimes the device is created to late.
(In reply to comment #0) > On system boot i got this error mesasge > > *** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]: > /dev/gpmct1: No such file or directory > > When the system has finished boot process /dev/gpmctl is available under /dev. > So i seems it is created to late at boot up. > Maybe a wrong order in some init files. > > I found an old issue #23278 concerning this which was solved by adding "need > local" in /etc/init.d/gpm > > Now need local is not in /etc/init.d/gpm anymore. > > Reproducible: Always > > Steps to Reproduce: > This has been happening on my system for about the last three weeks (I remember first seeing it about then). The error is generated by init.d/gpm during startup. Doing a 'gpm restart' later doesn't reproduce the error unless I reboot the entire system. I tried rebooting without parallel startup and the error still appears immediately after init.d/gpm. The console mouse has no problems starting and the device 'gpmctl' shown as having been created when I check. I just don't like seeing error messages in my startup, rather annoying :-)
After moving gpm init script from "default" runlevel to "boot" one, the error message disappears: rc-update del gpm rc-update add gpm boot Due to the new "boot" level starting, gpm is started earlier and at least for me there is no more annoying error message about missing /dev/gpmctl.
Looks like this error is long gone so this bug could be closed. Or is anybody still experiencing this?
Closing this bug. No further occurrences reported. Please reopen if there are still issues.
