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Mike

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From: East Texas, USA

Registered: 2023-12-31

Posts: 41  

keyboard broken in excalibur upgrade

After usrmerge and durring apt upgrade I incautously accepted the defailt when asked for keyboard type and now typing 'qwerty' shows nothing on the screen.
I luckily had mc running in another VT and replaced /etc/default/keyboard hoping that would fix things after reboot.
No Joy, can't login.
I can access that install from daedalus via mounting it as /dev/sdb2.
Suggestions on what I should change to gain access?
I'd prefer not to have to repeat the install daedalus, usrmerge, excalibur again.
Thanks,
Mike

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

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Registered: 2023-11-27

Posts: 473  

Re: keyboard broken in excalibur upgrade

maybe?

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7561

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delgado

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Registered: 2022-07-14

Posts: 275  

Re: keyboard broken in excalibur upgrade

Can you login via ssh from another computer?
Or boot daedalus and do a chroot into the excalibur installation?
To reconfigre the keyboard:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

Mike

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From: East Texas, USA

Registered: 2023-12-31

Posts: 41  

Re: keyboard broken in excalibur upgrade

Delgado, thanks for the suggestion but it didn't work.
I mounted the broken system with a USB card adapter to /dev/sdb2 on /sdb
As root: chroot /sdb bin/bash, then dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration which failed saying: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
root@RPID:~> ls -l {,/sdb}/etc/default/keyboard
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 150 Dec 14 17:40 /etc/default/keyboard
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 150 Dec  7 19:50 /sdb/etc/default/keyboard
root@RPID:~> cmp {,/sdb}/etc/default/keyboard; echo $?
0
This says they are the same, yet booting the broken system, typing on the the keyboard puts out nothing, so I can't log in.
Other suggestions?

Thanks,
Mike

Mike

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From: East Texas, USA

Registered: 2023-12-31

Posts: 41  

Re: keyboard broken in excalibur upgrade

Lacking a solution, I gave up, scrubbed and reinstalled then upgraded and am posting from there now.
Thanks for the ideas and Merry Christmas.
Ciao,
Mike