Bug#548837: closed by Anton Zinoviev <zinoviev@debian.org> (Bug#548837: fixed in console-setup 1.47)

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Anton Zinoviev, le Sun 29 Nov 2009 11:45:07 +0200, a écrit :
> > In any case (with or without usplash): I noticed that at a tty's login
> > prompt (and only there), once I type an accented character (á, é, ...), a
> > 'ç', an 'º' or an 'ª' (among others), I can't use the backspace key anymore.
> 
> This is a kernel problem.
> 
> > This is probably not related to console-setup, but in that case I 
> > really don't know to which package I should report it. Even if this is 
> > related with console-setup, it's very likely that this should be 
> > reported as a new bug (?).
> 
> If you want you can report this against the kernel but it seems nobody 
> is going to fix this (it is a know problem for many years) so don't 
> bother. :)  (BTW, another thing that needs to be documented in the FAQ).

Isn't that #221290?  Add -8 to your getty lines in /etc/inittab. Also
see #435287.

Samuel