Re: reinstall problems: console, klogd and modules
Op di 09-09-2003, om 22:21 schreef Benedict Verheyen:
> Hi,
>
> after dpkg became unworkable, i reinstalled my server.
> I encountered a couple of very annoying problems after upgrading to
> testing and that's with an almost bare system!
> (console problem and logger problem where there before upgrade)
>
> 1. The console package config failed. I tried dpkg-reconfigure
> console-data, but i get this:
> /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: console-data is broken or not fully
> installed
> I then try to install it again via apt-get install console-data
> (version 2002.12.04dbs-16) but it complains about dependency
> problems and console-data and base-config (v1.70) aren't configured
> properly. Obviously base-config depends on console-data and because
> console-data isn't configured correcly, base-config doesn't continue.
> dpkg --configure -a gives the same error: it tries to configure
> console-data and to load be-latin1 and it fails and then the config of
> base-config also fails.
>
> Every time i now boot, my console is wrong (qweryty) and it gives a
> warning about be-latin1. But i can manually load the correct keyboard
> via loadkeys be-latin1 !! I tried coping
> /usr/share/keymaps/i386/azerty/be-latin1.kmap.gz to
> /etc/console/bootttime.kmap.gz
I just saw this typo. it's boottime, not bootttime
> and adjust permissions to 644 but this
> doesn't load the correct keyboard at all. When i run the script
> /etc/init.d/keymap.sh, it doesn't load the correct keymap either.
>
> What can i do to load the correct keymap (be-latin1) at boot time so i
> can also login using an azerty keyboard and how do i reconfigure
> console-data so that it will allow base-config to be installed.
> It seems every install i do ends up in a keyboard/keymap fight.
> It literally takes me more time finding these annoying things that
> installing a full base system :)
I got rid of the dpkg errors by doing base-config again. Now both
console-data and base-config are installed OK. But it keeps booting in
qwerty.
Benedict
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