On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:03:54AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > 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. Probably your debconf priority is set too high for the questions to be asked. Try "dpkg-reconfigure -plow keyboard-configuration".
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