on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 01:01:17AM -0800, John Bagdanoff (bagdanof@home.com) wrote:
> Well, I finally hit a WALL with woody:
> Briefly, my problem:
>
> Once I try to login after booting, my 's' key just beeps at me! So
> 'startx' won't work because I have no 's'... just a beep.
>
> And, in mc, I get a 'warning, cant cd into archives'..... probably
> because it has an 's' in it. Thinking, it may be the latest bash
> upgrade, I wanted to downgrade to the earlier bash that was there.
> But, noooooooo, dpkg couldn't find 'bah.deb'. Even though I got the above
> warning, mc did show the archives directory. In mc, I was able to use
> the 's' key.
> So I reboot to 'Linux single', but again, no 's'. bummer.
> So I try 'mutt' (thank the gods... No 's' in 'mutt'). Now, I'm
> typing this in 'vim' and the 's' (obviously) is working.
>
> Why couldn't it have been 'z' that went belly up instead of 's'?
> Any help out there? Any clue to what might be happening? And
> hopefully a fix?
>
> (beep)incerly, your(beep)
> John
John:
You'll notice there i* no '*' in Debian GNU/Linux, thi* i* by de*ign and
for a good rea*on....
I'd look at:
- Language and/or locale settings. If you can dump your environment
(unfortunately, 'set' isn't going to help much...)
- keysym settings. Have your keysyms settings changed at all? I'm
not sure what commands you want to run, but 'dumpkeys' (tab
completion is your friend) should show:
keycode 31 = s
- Similarly, keyboard mappings -- check to see that you're running a
standard keymap:
$ loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/us.kmap.gz
If you've got gpm running, you may find you can cut and past 's'
characters from various screen output using your mouse. It's a pain in
the a**, but if it'* the only thing you have, it'* the only thing you
have.
Good luck.
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