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Bug#204976: marked as done (console-tools: changing to virtual terminal 7 makes the machine unusable)

Your message dated Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:55:32 +0200
with message-id <20060731165532.GA14671@baikonur.stro.at>
and subject line old kernel bug
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: console-tools
Version: 1:0.2.3dbs-39
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss

When I change to virtual terminal 7, I get a blank screen with a cursor
and no login prompt. Then I can no longer control the machine (unless
it is connected to a network so that I can connect by ssh). Without a
network connection, the only solution seems to switch off the machine.

The virtual terminal shouldn't be changed if one can't do anything from
the new one.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux ay 2.4.18-newpmac #1 Mon Jun 9 03:10:07 UTC 2003 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1

Versions of packages console-tools depends on:
ii  console-common             0.7.22        Basic infrastructure for text cons
ii  debconf                    1.2.35        Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                      2.3.1-16      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libconsole                 1:0.2.3dbs-39 Shared libraries for Linux console
ii  sysvinit                   2.85-4.1      System-V like init.

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
there are now newer reports against console usage in powerpc against
2.6, so assuming that your bug report got fixed inbetween.

you might want to test the latest Debian installer:
-> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
daily builds will be soon switched to expected beta3 for etch.

thanks for your feedback.

-- 
maks

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