Thanks! On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:03:54AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> On Mar 10, 2014, at 6:10 AM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> On Sun 09 Mar 2014 at 17:59:20 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> >>>> Here is what I get: >>>> >>>>> root@dillserver:~# aptitude show keyboard-configuration >>> >>> You have edited the output this command gave. In ganeral this is not >>> wise. >> >> Nope. I didn't edit the output. That's *exactly* the output I saw, >> verbatim, from a PowerPC Mac running Jessie. I was logged in via ssh to the >> machine from another in the same room. I copy-and-pasted from the ssh >> window to the mail window. No editing occurred. >> >> And this >> >>>>> root@dillserver:~# dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration >>>>> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; >>>>> falling back to defaults >>>>> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; >>>>> falling back to defaults >> >> is *exactly* the output i saw on the same machine a few seconds later. I >> was expecting to see questions about keyboard configuration, including one >> about ctrl-alt-backspace, but they did not appear. Once again: No editing >> occurred except for copy-and-past. >> >> Let me repeat that: *None* of the questions I normally expect to see from >> this command appeared. > > Probably your debconf priority is set too high for the questions to be > asked. Try "dpkg-reconfigure -plow keyboard-configuration". I tried that. It was my first thought. Unfortunately, it doesn't help. Here's the (unedited) output. In particular, no questions: > root@dillserver:~# dpkg-reconfigure -plow keyboard-configuration > update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling > back to defaults > update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling > back to defaults > root@dillserver:~# Any thoughts? Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21416eeb-973f-4552-8251-fdea7057f...@pobox.com
