Re: No 's' key after logon

2000-11-20 Thread USM Bish
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 01:01:17AM -0800, John Bagdanoff wrote: > Well, I finally hit a WALL with woody: > Briefly, my problem: > > Once I try to login after booting, my 's' key just beeps at me! So > 'startx' won't work because I have no 's'... just a beep. > > > Why couldn't it have been 'z'

Solved!!!!! (was Re: No 's' key after logon)

2000-11-20 Thread John Bagdanoff
And the winner of "John'ss Debian Geek of the year" award goess to: David Wright (the band playss "Tussk") I had edited /etc/inputrc, adding: bell-style none Forgot to put "set" in there. Moral of Sstory: Don't ever edit global filess (if poible) &: check ssyntax twice, ssave once. And

Re: No 's' key after logon

2000-11-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Bagdanoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Once I try to login after booting, my 's' key just beeps at me! So > 'startx' won't work because I have no 's'... just a beep. > > And, in mc, I get a 'warning, cant cd into archives'. probably > because it has an 's' in it. Thinking, it may be

Re: No 's' key after logon

2000-11-20 Thread kmself
on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:14:17AM -0800, John Bagdanoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 01:33:25AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 01:01:17AM -0800, John Bagdanoff ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Well, I finally hit a WALL with woody: > >

Re: No 's' key after logon

2000-11-20 Thread Jeff Green
On one server we lost a in the same manner it appears to have been the result of a slightly broken keyboard cable. The keyboard in question works fine on a booted machine but if present during a reboot appears to convince the bios that "a" is a non event. Jeff kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on

Re: No 's' key after logon

2000-11-20 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 01:33:25AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 01:01:17AM -0800, John Bagdanoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Well, I finally hit a WALL with woody: > > Briefly, my problem: > > > > Once I try to login after booting, my 's' key just beeps at me!

Re: No 's' key after logon

2000-11-20 Thread kmself
on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 01:01:17AM -0800, John Bagdanoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well, I finally hit a WALL with woody: > Briefly, my problem: > > Once I try to login after booting, my 's' key just beeps at me! So > 'startx' won't work because I have no 's'... just a beep. > > And, in mc,

No 's' key after logon

2000-11-20 Thread John Bagdanoff
Well, I finally hit a WALL with woody: Briefly, my problem: Once I try to login after booting, my 's' key just beeps at me! So 'startx' won't work because I have no 's'... just a beep. And, in mc, I get a 'warning, cant cd into archives'. probably because it has an 's' in it. Thinking, it m