Re: What happened to "use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?"
Thanks!
On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
> 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".
I tried that. It was my first thought. Unfortunately, it doesn't help.
Here's the (unedited) output. In particular, no questions:
> root@dillserver:~# dpkg-reconfigure -plow 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:~#
Any thoughts?
Enjoy!
Rick
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