Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

["C. Hurschler" <list.hurschler@gmx.de>]

would a dpkg-reconifigure xserver-xfree86 have "fixed" this??

C

On Thursday 06 January 2005 07:43, Mike Chandler wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 06:24 pm, John A Chaves wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 07:45 pm, mailmanmike@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> > > I just now checked and I don't have the file "Xservers.dpkg-old" in
> > > that directory.
> > > Are you sure that's where it is? I don't have any way to search for it
> > > without a keyboard.
> >
> > I think that you only get the .dpkg-old file if you modified the config
> > file. In my case I accidentally allowed the new Xservers file to be
> > installed and so restoring the old one was the first thing I tried.
> >
> > My original Xservers file had lines of the form
> >
> >  :0 local /etc/X11/X :0 -dpi 120 -nolisten tcp vt7
> >
> > and the new one (that had the dead keyboard) was
> >
> >  :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp
> >
> > I'll try to experiment later to try to reproduce the problem
> > and then file a bug report.
>
> Thank you SO MUCH for that bit of information. I was able to boot to
> recovery mode and use nano to edit the file as you had stated, now I have
> my keyboard back.
>
> :)