This is most disturbing. I already skipped upgrading from 7.04 to 7.10
because I believed the problem would be fixed in 8.04 (see Colin
Watson's notes above). Is there likely to be a patch or add-on fix soon
so I can move on to Hardy Heron?
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Characters incorrectly echoed to virtual terminal scr
Public bug reported:
This is a continuation of Bug #19487 and Bug #29523, but since it seems
(at least in Feisty Faun) to involve echoing to screen rather than the
keyboard, I thought I should post it as a separate item.
Following previous discussions, I tried locale-gen fr_CA and rebooted,
but
I wonder if this is related to item 130444 "Characters incorrectly
echoed to virtual terminal screens" [Feisty].
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Entering "é" character in full name during installation fails
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/13938
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I have just noticed that the caps lock key does not work in the virtual
terminals: characters continue to appear as lower-case even when the
"Caps" pilot light is on. The caps lock works properly with the gui
terminal. The ordinary shift key works properly in both environments. I
don't know if this
UPDATE Another possible clue? -- Context is Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. This was
discovered accidentally. When the grub boot starts, just after the Ubuntu logo
appears on the screen but before the sign-in box comes up, I do ctrl-alt-F1 and
switch to TTY display (with all the messages that are usually
