On 1/19/07, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/19/07, Kevin Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I have SuSE 10.2, gentoo and BLFS installed on my laptop. While SuSE and
> > gentoo (and others like Mandriva, Kororaa....) setup the keyboard to behave
> > the way it should, I just can't get it do the same in BLFS.
> >
> > These are the problems I'm facing with the keyboard.
> >
> > 1)  Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Z do not work while in single user mode. But these key
> >      combinations do work in other runlevels
>
> You mean single user mode on the linux console correct? I'm not sure
> why this wouldn't work. Single-user enters a shell through sulogin.
> According to sulogin(8), /etc/profile is not read in this setting. In
> that way, you wouldn't get the INPUTRC settings. Possibly, this is
> causing problems. But the console script is run, so I don't know. This
> is not my area of expertise. I don't spend much time on the console.

Now I read sulogin(8) again. Try changing inittab so that sulogin
actually starts a login shell. Change

su:S016:once:/sbin/sulogin

to

su:S016:once:/sbin/sulogin -p

I don't know if that'll help, but it's worth a try.

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Dan
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