Re: What happened to "use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?"
On Mar 10, 2014, at 6:10 AM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun 09 Mar 2014 at 17:59:20 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>> Here is what I get:
>>
>>> root@dillserver:~# aptitude show keyboard-configuration
>
> You have edited the output this command gave. In ganeral this is not
> wise.
Nope. I didn't edit the output. That's *exactly* the output I saw, verbatim, from a PowerPC Mac running Jessie. I was logged in via ssh to the machine from another in the same room. I copy-and-pasted from the ssh window to the mail window. No editing occurred.
And this
>>> 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
is *exactly* the output i saw on the same machine a few seconds later. I was expecting to see questions about keyboard configuration, including one about ctrl-alt-backspace, but they did not appear. Once again: No editing occurred except for copy-and-past.
Let me repeat that: *None* of the questions I normally expect to see from this command appeared.
> I get this when 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration' exits. It is
> harmless. Before that there are four questions (five, if X is installed)
> asked. You don't see screens with these questions?
Nope! Nothing. Nada.
>
>> This is a fresh-out-of-the-box Jessie installed from the netinst CD a
>> while ago and updated regularly.
>
> So is this. No system files have been touched by me.
I have run "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" before on this machine (several times) with exactly this output. I have *never* seen the expected questions.
>
>> Should I file a bug report?
>
> Saying what? Providing what information?
>
Saying the above. Providing the above information.
Rick
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