On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 06:08:01PM +0100, Grendel wrote: > ** On Mar 02, Todd Suess scribbled: > > > > Greets ppl, > > > > I did an apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, and after that I can no longer > > log in to the console. I had just rebooted after the update, and was > > watching > > the kernel boot messages, when I saw something strange pop up. It was > > similar > > to the following (going from memory) > > > > Checking for valid XFree86 configuration file.....unable to check! > > Not starting KDM Windows Manager > > > > I then got a normal non X login console screen, but no matter what > I got that several times as well. It turned out that the keyboard was > initialized in a way that some keys (apparently at random) were swapped - > e.g. q/a, y/z. At first I thought the problem was that I selected a Polish > keyboard (Poland has two keyboard layouts - one "official" and practically > not used :), and the other one "programmers". The official one uses the > qwertz layout while the other the standard US one), but the keys were > swapped each time differently. It was enough for me to login remotely, su to > root and reinitialize the keyboard. To see whether it is your problem - just > type the password as a login name and see whether all characters are > correct. I failed to find where the problem lied since the keyboard layout > initialized by console-tools worked OK when the keyboard was reinitialized.
I once had my usual "qwerty" keymap replaced with "azerty" following an update. That took a while to diagnose.... <g> -- Karsten M. Self ([email protected]) What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Scope out Scoop: http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/ Nothin' rusty about Kuro5hin: http://www.kuro5hin.org/
