Thanks very much for the explanation. I guess that explains why I can't Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Z working in single user mode. I just thought that, it should work in all runlevels as this is the normal behaviour you'll see in all distros. Maybe, they patch it to enable job control, I guess !!
Thanks again. Kevin On Saturday 20 January 2007 01:34, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Kevin Williams wrote: > > 1) Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Z do not work while in single user mode. But these > > key combinations do work in other runlevels > > This is simply not supposed to work. > > In single user mode, the sulogin program starts a shell directly on > /dev/console. Job control (with keys such as Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Z) works only > when a shell has a controlling tty, but /dev/console in the kernel is > deliberately made so that it can never be a controlling tty for anything. > > > 2) Ctrl+Alt+Fn combination doesn't work when the kdm login screen is > > displayed !! The only way I can use Ctrl+Alt+Fn is either to login > > into kde or select "Console Login" from the drop down menu and thus > > terminate kdm session. While in other runlevels, these key combinations > > work without a hitch ! > > Sorry, I don't use KDM and thus can't help. There was a bug in > xorg-server-1.1.0 (fixed in 1.1.1) that sometimes prevented Ctrl+Alt+Fn > from working, but what you describe doesn't look like this bug. > > -- > Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
