On 11 January 2015 at 22:44, Michael Dahlberg <olgamirth@gmail.com> wrote:
I recently had a hard drive failure which resulted in my system having a corrupted /var. I removed /var and recreated it from backups, however now i seem to have a unique problem: when I log into the console the backspace and ESC keys do not function correctly. Both keys just result in advancing
On January 11, 2015 at 5:36:35 PM, Oliver Temlin (temlin@gmail.com) wrote: On 11 January 2015 at 21:38, Michael Dahlberg <olgamirth@gmail.com> wrote: the cursor. Strangely, if I boot into the rescue.target, the keys work correctly.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Have you tried reinstalling kbd? Maybe the keyboard definitions themselves got corrupted somehow? And maybe check your locale (including locale-gen) and console font? Paul