Re: Console dead after update
In linux.debian.user, you 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.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Darren
>
>
I looked at what is in /etc/rcS.d and what is in /etc/rc2.d and found
S05keymap.sh
S05keymaps-lct.sh
I'm guessing that the reason it starts in Single is because these are there
and I did not find them in rc2.d. That doesn't explain what happened with
the upgrade, but it could have something to do with the keymap. I remember
something in a recent woody (testing) upgrade that asked if I wanted to use
my current config file or something like that and the word keymap was in it.
I just chose the default, N, as I recall. I'm sorry that I don't recall
what that was.
You might be able to check if it has something to do with this, by going
into Single and adding those two links into /etc/rc2.d. I just double
checked and it appears that the second one is a broken link, because
keymaps-lct.sh does not appear in my /etc/init.d directory. So just go to
/etc/rc2.d (or whatever runlevel you use) and do:
ln -s /etc/init.d/keymap.sh S05keymap.sh
and see what happens when you reboot. Meanwhile, maybe someone knows where
to look for the config file that might have got changed. I found something
called /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz and there is an old one too. It looks
like mine was updated on the last upgrade. Maybe that has something to do
with it. I don't really know how it all works; so I can't give you any real
answer. Sorry.
Anita
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