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Lethality
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 Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject: The lost characters! |
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Last time I booted up gentoo it found a filesystem error during scan. Saying that its was fixed, but I had to restart.
Then on the next bootup it went all the way through to the login. And here is where I'm stuck. You see, I need to login as root (perform tasks, starting kde etc), but the password contains some symbols as the @ and the ¤. I cant write them anymore, they just wont pop up when I press the @ key... and yes its extremely frustrating.
Even the charcodes wont output any character (ALT + 0064 etc)
I can write them in nano and links, but just not in the terminal. Anyone know what might have happened? |
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wynn
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Something may have happened to your /etc/conf.d/keymaps file and it has changed to the US default. I have found (GB keyboard layout with US keymap) that the "at" sign (@) is on shift-2 (that's "digit-2") and I can't read the other character in your post.
You should be able to correct this (if this is what's wrong) by booting up the LiveCD or the minimal installer, mounting the root partition and correcting the keymap setting.
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Lethality
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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Ah, ok. How would I proceed to change the keymap setting?
Edit: I can login with another user though. Nut how do I go from here? |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I can login with another user though. |
You need to be root to make a change to /etc/conf.d/keymaps and you can't login as root 
You can, however, read the file, the setting that I had in mind iswhereas you want. If it is wrong, then changing it using the LiveCD is probably the simplest option.
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Lethality
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Its already set to "no". No changes here then =( |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | You see, I need to login as root (perform tasks, starting kde etc), but the password contains some symbols as the @ and the �. I cant write them anymore, they just wont pop up when I press the @ key... |
Does this mean you've tried them when logged in as your user typing these wayward keys on the console? Have you tried other keys, for instance, here, the quotes (") key with the wrong keymap gives (@), what do your wanted keys show? You may have to describe them as these screens seem to have a limited character set.
On boot, does it say it is loading the no keymap? (A bit like Odysseus and the Cyclops  )
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Lethality
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Yes I've tried. All the keys " # % & and so on still work. Its only the @ as far as I know that does not show in the console. What it really does when I press "Alt Gr + 2" (they are the keystrokes for the @ on the no keymap) is to erase everything I've typed. Feels like a curse  |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | when I press "Alt Gr + 2" (its the keystrokes for the @ on the no keymap) |
Really! Snoreway is inappropriate, you really need to be on your toes
There seem to be two Norwegian keymaps, /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/no.map.gz and /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/no-latin1.map.gz, the second one has a doc file showing the layout. Would it be worthwhile changing fromtoand seeing if that is better?
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Lethality
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm afraid it set it to "us". It could not find the latin1 keymap. Strangely the ", # and @ keys wont work with the us one either. All these characters do is to erase what I write in the console. Its really weird, and I think the problem is lying somewhere else than in the keymaps file. |
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Lethality
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I've been stuck here for ages. It's as if the charcode for the "at" key simply erases what i write. So does the charcode for the # key and some others.
Anyone got any idea? |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:02 am Post subject: |
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Surely you could just change the password to one with normal characters with a livecd? And then you can try to fix the keymaps later? Or maybe even just use latin characters and numerals for the password?
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| ofcourse I could, but a fix would be nice. What if I needed the @ or the # during console work. Links urls, echoing comments "###" etc. |
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