Re: Console dead after update

[Darren Marsh <djmarsh@bigpond.net.au>]

Karsten M. Self wrote:

> on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:10:49PM +1000, Darren Marsh (djmarsh@bigpond.net.au) wrote:
>
> > I updated from the testing tree 2 days ago and after all the packages 
> > were installed the keyboard appeared to go dead. The system was still 
> > running fine as I could telnet to it and all services appeared to be 
> > running correctly but it would not accept any input on the console. It's 
> > like getty isn't running even though it is.
> >
> > If I boot to single user (runlevel 1) the keyboard works fine but when I 
> > go to runlevel 2 it goes dead. The keyboard works fine on another 
> > machine and was working fine before the update so I know it's not the 
> > keyboard.
>
> What's in /etc/rc2.d/ ?
S10sysklogd    S20bind9    S20lpd                S23ntp      S99fetchmail
S11klogd       S20exim     S20makedev            S30squid    S99rmnologin
S12kerneld     S20gpm      S20nfs-kernel-server  S50wu-ftpd
S14ppp         S20inetd    S20samba              S89atd
S19nfs-common  S20logoutd  S22ntpdate            S89cron

The only way I can think of to fix this is to reinstall Debian from 
scratch and I'm not too keen on that idea.

Thanks,
Darren