Re: Console dead after update

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

Karsten M. Self wrote:

> on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:34:25PM +1000, Darren Marsh (djmarsh@bigpond.net.au) wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Slow down, not so fast.
>
> Boot single.
>
> Then:  Run each of the 'S*' scripts above until something breaks.  I
> suspect...hmm...not sure.  Maybe gpm, but that's a long shot.
As a programmer I'm almost ashamed that I didn't think of something so 
simple in order to locate the problem. Thank you very much. It was gpm, 
it was configured for a ps/2 mouse while I have a serial mouse and ps/2 
keyboard. I have the same problem when I start kdm but now I know what 
path to go down.

Thanks for the suggestion too Anita now I know how the default keymap 
gets loaded :-)

Thanks,
Darren