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



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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