Re: What happened to "use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?"

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

Thanks Andrei!

Here is what I get:

> root@dillserver:~# aptitude show keyboard-configuration
> Package: keyboard-configuration          
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Version: 1.102
> Priority: optional
> Section: utils
> Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
> Architecture: all
> Uncompressed Size: 2357 k
> Depends: liblocale-gettext-perl, initscripts
> PreDepends: debconf (>= 1.5.34)
> Breaks: console-setup (< 1.71), console-setup-mini (< 1.47)
> Replaces: console-setup (< 1.47), console-setup-mini (< 1.47)
> Description: system-wide keyboard preferences
>  This package maintains the keyboard preferences in /etc/default/keyboard.  Other packages can use the information provided by
>  this package in order to configure the keyboard on the console or in X Window.
> 
> 
> root@dillserver:~# dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
> root@dillserver:~# 

Let me know if any other information would be useful...

This is a fresh-out-of-the-box Jessie installed from the netinst CD a while ago and updated regularly.

Should I file a bug report?

Enjoy!
Rick

On Mar 9, 2014, at 4:41 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Du, 09 mar 14, 04:08:06, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> In Wheezy, I used to be able to use
>>    dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
>> to (among other things) set the option to use control-alt-backspace to 
>> terminate the X server.
>> 
>> But in Jessie, "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" asks no 
>> questions and makes no changes.
> 
> Works for me and there's nothing in the changelog to suggest such a 
> change. Do you get *any* output from dpkg-reconfigure?