[arch-general] keymap corruption

[Oliver Temlin]

On 11 January 2015 at 21:38, Michael Dahlberg <olgamirth at 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 the cursor.  Strangely, if I boot into the rescue.target, the keys work correctly.
>
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Have you tried rebuilding the ramdisk?  It usually helps in these cases.
--Oliver Temlin