Re: Keyboard on console; and base files
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 11:48:32AM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> On my machine the keyboard on the console is seriously deranged, so
> that typing an a gets a "q" on the screen, and so on. X11 is fine.
Run kbdconfig and choose the correct keyboard layout and language
(qwerty/US -- for instance). X uses it's own keyboard configuration.
>
> In trying to upgrade, I am running into the base files message about
> /etc/inputrc, but I have deleted the messages and cannot get onto the
> archive since the mirrors haven't been updated. What do I have to do?
> I deleted /etc/inputrc---no dice, dpkg just still believes it is
> there. I removed the libreadlineg2 package, but when I ran apt-get
> upgrade again, it installed it first, leaving the same error.
There's a bug post for this already. Either put base-files on hold until
it's fixed or use --force-overwrite with dpkg.
>
> I also have to disable xdm. Can I do this temporarily somehow, with a
> config file?
Temporarily disable xdm...
update-rc.d -f xdm remove
/etc/init.d/xdm stop
Restore xdm
update-rc.d xdm defaults
/etc/init.d/xdm start
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