[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2020-06-04 Thread BETLOG
In case it's useful: at the end of the video, after the text stops scrolling, i press: r a few times enter a few times ctrl-alt-del /etc/default/grub included (as you can see from the commented lines I have been trying to figure out if thats why it isnt working, because it seems to have broken

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2020-05-30 Thread BETLOG
Still seeing this in Kubuntu 18.04 installs. Menu does not display, blind selections seem to do nothing or simply restart. As stated above: this is a system killer if discovered when we actually have a serious problem. Fortunately in my case I was able to work around it, but it was still terrifyi

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2020-05-30 Thread BETLOG
PS: it seems to be entirely ignoring GRUB_GFXMODE / GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX at some point after selecting a 'recovery options' grub-entry. It looks to be reverting to 640x480...maybe relevant. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2019-01-23 Thread Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 πŸ¦„
This is still an issue with bionic. Pressing arrow keys in the friendly- recovery menu will result in [B and [A. Makes it very difficult to fix a broken system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2017-03-01 Thread Chris Showell
Still an issue for me in Xenial (16.04.2 LTS) on a MacBook Pro 5,5. Trying to recover after a crash, and can't get past the Welcome to emergency mode! ...[some suggestions]... Press Enter for maintenance (or press Control-D to continue): Stage. No keyboard input accepted whatsoever (although the

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2012-02-27 Thread Matthew H McKenzie
Still an issue for me - Oneiric AMD64 Server. The server CDs are not really live CD's. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203385 Title: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2011-11-08 Thread August Karlstrom
I experience this problem in the latest Ubuntu 11.10. I can select entries in the grub menu but the recovery menu does not respond to any key press. I use an Apple USB keyboard. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://b

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2010-01-31 Thread helpsteve
** Changed in: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed ** Changed in: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203385 You received this bug notificat

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2009-08-23 Thread marco.pallotta
John, I have opened a new bug report (#417859) about the issue related to the recovery menu, after having booted the system with the single kernel option, that cannot be controlled with the keyboard. The issue described in this bug report (recovery manu that cannot be controlled with the keyboar

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2009-08-23 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Also whiptail seems to work fine once the computer has booted, even under linuxterms. Does Ubuntu configure the linuxterm keyboard during boot? If so, maybe should be done before whiptail is started? Alternatively is it possible to undo this configuration so that I can test whiptail under controlle

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2009-08-23 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Still occurs in Jaunty 32bit (VirtualBox) and Karmic Alpha-4 (real hardware, PS2 keyboard). I boot the livecd, press F6 add single, boot, and then nothing works. I can type RR and it seems as though it selects the rootshell, but pressing Enter doesn't do anything, I am still in whiptail and can st

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2008-12-15 Thread Adam Katz
Still an issue on Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 (with a Dell Latitude D530) when altering the non-recovery mode boot option to suffix the word "single" on the end of the loading. This works fine when I go to "recovery mode" directly, but I really expected appending "single" to the end of that string to sim

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2008-10-21 Thread marco.pallotta
The fix is released for Intrepid but what about Hardy? -- Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203385 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@li

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2008-10-17 Thread Sarah Hobbs
** Changed in: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu Intrepid) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203385 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- u

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2008-10-04 Thread Thomas Beyer
updating 8.04 to 8.10 with xubuntu on msi laptop and kernel 2.6.27-4 no problems with recoverymenu! -- Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203385 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2008-08-04 Thread marco.pallotta
Michael, my hardware is an Acer laptop (aspire 5920) with an integrated graphics controller INTEL Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 (the driver module loaded by the system is i915). -- Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203385 You received this bug notif

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2008-08-01 Thread Michael Vogt
@marco: on what specific hardware have you seen this issue? What video card is installed and how is the keyboard connected (standard ps2 or usb?). -- Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203385 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2008-07-30 Thread marco.pallotta
Michael, on real hardware as well. -- Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203385 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Vogt
Does this only happen inside kvm/qemu? Or was this seen on real hardware as well? ** Changed in: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu Intrepid) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203385 You received this bug notificatio

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2008-06-25 Thread James Hillyerd
The combination of this bug and #122948 (can't use sudo after configuring network) basically means I have a brand new Ubuntu install that is completely hosed. Please fix one of these bugs! -- Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203385 You received thi

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2008-05-09 Thread marco.pallotta
Lars, unfortunally neither up/down keys nor "hot-key" runs for me :-( -- Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203385 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2008-03-19 Thread Lars L
The man page for whiptail says that you can "move between the menu entries by pressing the UP/DOWN keys, the first letter of the tag as a hot-key.". So if you press the r key twice and then hit enter you will get a root shell. To make this more obvious you could change the menu entries to somethin

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2008-03-18 Thread Brian Murray
I agree that having a root shell be the default makes sense. ** Changed in: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium Status: New => Confirmed -- Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203385 You received this bug notification

[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

2008-03-17 Thread albert
** Attachment added: "IMG_0359.JPG" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12712462/IMG_0359.JPG ** Description changed: Binary package hint: friendly-recovery After upgrading a clean Dapper installation in kvm to Hardy, Gnome did not start correctly. To get access to the system I tried to boo