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



On Mar 10, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon 10 Mar 2014 at 14:03:11 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
>> 
>> For what it's worth, if I do "dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1" I get the
>> question I expect to see, asking what I want the default printer-paper
>> size to be.  So dpkg-reconfigure isn't completely broken all by
>> itself.  The bug that prevents me from seeing the questions must be
>> somewhere in the interaction between it and the
>> "keyboard-configuration" package...
> 
> 
> If you can repeat 'dpkg-reconfigure something' successfully with
> libpaper1 and other programs (e.g. debconf, exim4-config, adduser,
> console-setup etc) you have a very reasonable case for considering
> there to be a bug in keyboard-configuration. Isn't there a list for
> you architecture where you could seek further advice?

The "success" with libpaper1 is repeatable.  As is the "failure" with keyboard-configuration.

There is a debian-powerpc list.  I'll ask there, but it's not a highly active list.

Rick

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