> I've recently installed 13.04 on my laptop, so I'll try it there next.
Good: failsafe-x is no longer completely broken in 13.04. It can now be controlled with the mouse and keyboard. Hooray! It still has several bugs, though, which I'll report separately. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xdiagnose in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1169004 Title: friendly-recovery: failsafeX dialog is completely unusable Status in “xdiagnose” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: 1. boot my laptop into recovery mode with no external mouse connected (only the laptop's builtin trackpad) 2. from the "Recovery Menu", select "failsafeX" (This is a Lenovo ThinkPad T500 with Synaptics trackpad -- pretty vanilla hardware that normally works perfectly with both gpm and X.org.) Expected behaviour: - failsafe dialogs are controllable by keyboard (or by builtin trackpad) Actual behaviour: - initial dialog is keyboard controllable (space or enter clicks the "OK" button) - but the second dialog ("What would you like to do?") is completely unresponsive: I cannot use tab or arrow keys to select different radiobuttons, I cannot use space or enter to click OK, the builtin trackpad does not work. There is no way to get into the failsafe X session. The only way out is Ctrl-Alt-F2 back to a text console followed by manual recovery. It's not quite failsafe! Workaround: connect a USB mouse. Or reboot with USB mouse connected. I think. If a USB mouse is connected *and working*, then the trackpad magically starts working. But the USB mouse isn't always recognized, I think. Unclear what it takes to make it work. Anyways, even if the trackpad worked perfectly with or without a mouse connected, this GUI should still be entirely keyboard controllable. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: friendly-recovery 0.2.25 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-27.46-generic 3.5.7.7 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-27-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Apr 14 21:57:34 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-30 (196 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1) MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: friendly-recovery UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-11-22 (143 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdiagnose/+bug/1169004/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
