<![CDATA[Dev1 Galaxy Forum / keyboard broken in excalibur upgrade]]> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7670 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:13:31 +0000 FluxBB <![CDATA[Re: keyboard broken in excalibur upgrade]]> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=60691#p60691 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

]]> Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:13:31 +0000 https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=60691#p60691 <![CDATA[Re: keyboard broken in excalibur upgrade]]> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=60662#p60662 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

]]> Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:55:43 +0000 https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=60662#p60662 <![CDATA[Re: keyboard broken in excalibur upgrade]]> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=60605#p60605 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
]]> Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:42:20 +0000 https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=60605#p60605 <![CDATA[Re: keyboard broken in excalibur upgrade]]> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=60588#p60588 maybe?

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

]]> Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:49:05 +0000 https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=60588#p60588 <![CDATA[keyboard broken in excalibur upgrade]]> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=60571#p60571 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

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