Like I said, I wanted to go thru' /etc/profile and other config files which 
include lines I copied from SuSE. Actually, /etc/profile sources these other 
config files. 

After reading thru' /etc/profile I realized that, there're many lines that I 
don't understand. I'd require to knowledge on the workings of ttys, escape 
sequences and the like.

Therefore, I decided to do the easy way. I removed the 
file /etc/profile, /etc/inputrc, /etc/login.defs, /etc/bashrc and a couple of 
other files (from SuSE) thus eliminating the possibility that any of the 
files will be read. Nope ! That didn't help either. The problem still 
persists and obviously nothing from the files I mentioned above are playing 
part in this mess.

I'm out of ideas. I sure can live without these Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Z but, just 
felt that these should work without any tweaking on my part. 

> Alexander is the guy you'd want to talk to here. The console/kbd is
> voodoo to me. But, if you read through /etc/rc.d/init.d/console, you
> can start to put together the process. And, yes, the console behavior
> is closely tied to the kernel.

I wonder how I can approach Alexander with my problem. I guess, he must be  
receiving a copy of all the mail to and from blfs-support mailing list ! 
Right ?

Thanks,

Kevin

On Friday 19 January 2007 14:39, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Dan
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