Bug#352449: [Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#352449: console-setup: seriously broken

[Norbert Preining]

On Son, 12 Feb 2006, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > - the settings do not affect all terminals, only the one I am logged in
> >   and call dpkg-reconfigure, so I cannot enter any umlauts in any other
> >   console thant the one I called setupconf from.
> 
> This is normal, users cannot modify other ttys unless they are also
> logged into them.

Then what are the settings tty[1-6] for? I did ALL this as root! And
root should be able to change everything?

> > - Strange effect (hard to repeat, but it happens sometimes), after
> >   reconfiguring the console, suddenly some programs cannot be found
> >   (less /etc/X11/xorg.conf: bash: less command not found, but it is
> >   there!)
> 
> Hey, that sounds indeed quite unbelievable ;)

No repeatable. I called setupcon, and then gut my usual prompt:
[gandalf]
~# 
then I typed dpkg-reconfigure
[gandalf]
~# dpkg-reconfigure
bash: dpkg-reconfigure command not found
and I found that there is a strange space between the hash and the "d"
and I if I go to the start of the line Ctlr-A and THEN backspace
backspace I could suddenly delete characters.

I assume that this has something todo with some double-width chars, or
utf8 encoded chars which somehow manage to come into the console as one
8bit char to be displayed, but in some buffer they are still as two
chars.

One more thing, today NO umlauts did work at all, not even after calling
setupcon from the user windows.

Herzliche Grüße

Uhhh whats this, it cannot even display my umlauts ...

Best wishes

Norbert

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