On 11 January 2015 at 22:44, Michael Dahlberg <olgamirth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On January 11, 2015 at 5:36:35 PM, Oliver Temlin (temlin@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On 11 January 2015 at 21:38, Michael Dahlberg <olgamirth@xxxxxxxxx> 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 reinstalling kbd? Maybe the keyboard definitions themselves got corrupted somehow? And maybe check your locale (including locale-gen) and console font? Paul
