From: Thomas Dickey [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: 19 September 2011 10:44
The most likely problem is that I overlooked a problem with gpm in
ncurses
which allowed it to open an unwanted connection for xterm. (For quite
a
while this wasn't a problem since gpm and X wouldn't work together, but
finally X was fixed, and packagers began turning on gpm without asking
anymore).
The connections aren't closed, and after a few tries, the application
becomes unusable. It's still a problem with CentOS iirc, since I fixed
it
in ncurses with its 5.6 release - looks like CentOS 5.6 has the
previous
release for ncurses still (more than five years old). I can lookup the
exact versions later, but am short of time this morning.
Ah, that explains it. It's no problem for us to have gpm disabled in CentOS
5, and CentOS 6 uses ncurses 5.7-3.20090208 so it looks like it should be
fixed there.