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<p><tt>Package: kbd</tt><br>
<tt>Version: 1.15.2-2</tt><br>
<tt>Severity: important</tt><br>
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<tt>-- System Information:</tt><br>
<tt>Debian Release: 6.0.2</tt><br>
<tt> APT prefers stable-updates</tt><br>
<tt> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')</tt><br>
<tt>Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)</tt><br>
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<tt>Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-powerpc64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)</tt><br>
<tt>Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)</tt><br>
<tt>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash</tt><br>
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<tt>Versions of packages kbd depends on:</tt><br>
<tt>ii console-setup 1.68+squeeze2 console font and keymap setup prog</tt><br>
<tt>ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib</tt><br>
<tt>ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip</tt><br>
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<tt>Versions of packages kbd recommends:</tt><br>
<tt>ii console-setup 1.68+squeeze2 console font and keymap setup prog</tt><br>
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<tt>kbd suggests no packages.</tt><br>
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<tt>-- no debconf information</tt><br>
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<tt>- From /etc/init.d/kbd:</tt><br>
<tt>reset_vga_palette ()</tt><br>
<tt>{</tt><br>
<tt> if [ -f /proc/fb ]; then</tt><br>
<tt> # They have a framebuffer device.</tt><br>
<tt> # That means we have work to do...</tt><br>
<tt> echo -n "\e]R"</tt><br>
<tt> fi</tt><br>
<tt>}</tt><br>
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<tt>I rewrote the echo statement above after inspecting it with xxd.</tt><br>
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<tt>On IBM POWER5/6/7 systems controlled by a Hardware Management Console, the foreground text color on the HMC Java ASCII console </tt><br>
<tt>terminal turns from white to black after the escape sequence above is issued. Since the background color is black, that renders </tt><br>
<tt>the console unusable.</tt><br>
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<tt>The work around is to close the console and then reopen it.</tt><br>
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