Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:57:20 +0200 Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2014-10-13 16:25 +0200, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 08:24:31PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> After upgrading the grub packages and rebooting my laptop, grub > >> displayed the boot menu and then was hung. The countdown before > >> booting the default kernel was not started and grub did not accept any > >> keyboard input. > >> > >> I had to boot a rescue system from a USB stick, chroot into my > >> installation and downgrade to 2.00-22 to get back to a working system. > > > > Sorry for the delay in replying to this. Could you please post the > > output of: > > > > sudo debconf-show grub-pc > > > > ? Is there anything else interesting about your system, since this is > > not something I can reproduce? > > I have diverted /sbin/update-grub to maintain /boot/grub/grub.cfg by > hand, as you suggested in bug #578576. Therefore the debconf data are > probably not too interesting. > > > Bearing in mind the period of time > > involved, it might also be worth trying with 2.02~beta2-14 now that you > > have rescue media to hand. > > I have managed to install 2.02~beta2-15 on a USB stick which is much > easier to recover, and the offending command which causes grub to freeze > is "terminal_input at_keyboard", which I have been using for obtaining a > German keyboard layout (see #686817 on that matter; I'm sure there was > an even older bug, but cannot find it now). If I remove that statement, > grub works. From the grub command line I can "insmod at_keyboard" > without problems, but "terminal_input at_keyboard" freezes grub.
I tried to reproduce this in a virtual machine (using kvm), but under kvm everything seems to work fine including the german keyboard layout. When I tried it on real hardware I could reproduce the problem, but instead of freezing I got garbage input after switching terminal_input to at_keyboard. Kind regards, Jeroen Dekkers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
