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Re: keyboard (console?) problem



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On Sun, July 4, 2004 at 17:13, Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- Johannes Resch <jr@xor.at> wrote:
>
>> Deferring virtual terminal setup until console accessible.
>> pluto:/usr/local/bin#
>
> Where are you running this command from? Is it from an xterm, or a VT. If
> you switch to a VT and run it, before you do, what does the following
> produce:
>
> # tty
> # ls -l $(tty)

#tty
/dev/tty1
#ls -l $(tty)
crw-------    1 root     tty        4,   1 Jul  5 07:55 /dev/tty1

some more (possibly important) info: this system was installed from debian
woody-CDs (base system only), then unstable sources were entered in
sources.list and a "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" and "apt-get
dist-upgrade" brought the system to current unstable.

--jr



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