On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 11:48:32AM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > 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.
Run kbdconfig and choose the correct keyboard layout and language (qwerty/US -- for instance). X uses it's own keyboard configuration. > > 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. There's a bug post for this already. Either put base-files on hold until it's fixed or use --force-overwrite with dpkg. > > I also have to disable xdm. Can I do this temporarily somehow, with a > config file? Temporarily disable xdm... update-rc.d -f xdm remove /etc/init.d/xdm stop Restore xdm update-rc.d xdm defaults /etc/init.d/xdm start -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
