On my machine the keyboard on the console is seriously deranged, so that typing an a gets a "q" on the screen, and so on. X11 is fine.
In trying to upgrade, I am running into the base files message about /etc/inputrc, but I have deleted the messages and cannot get onto the archive since the mirrors haven't been updated. What do I have to do? I deleted /etc/inputrc---no dice, dpkg just still believes it is there. I removed the libreadlineg2 package, but when I ran apt-get upgrade again, it installed it first, leaving the same error. I also have to disable xdm. Can I do this temporarily somehow, with a config file? Thanks again for help, many times... Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent." ---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son)nn.