Misc problems with quantal

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 18 December 2012 00:37, Dale Amon <amon at vnl.com> wrote:
> A couple broken items in quantal...
>
> First off, I also have been bit by the dselect
> problem discussed in
>
>         https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1066847
>
> I always use dselect unless I am only installing one or two
> packages. I just do not particularly like aptitude, etc.
>

As noted in the bug report dselect does not work with multi-arch.

Either write patches to dselect to make it support multi-arch, or
disable multi-arch, or use a different package management tool.
Each of these proposals has advantages & drawbacks. The first one is
universally best, but requires significant technical work. The latter
two, are compromises one way or another.

> Second, I am getting hit with a blinking screen even in
> virtual terminals on a quantal amd64 server build. Terminal
> is an ADI ProVista attached to a KVM.
>

Sorry, can't help you here. File a bug maybe?

> Eventually the screen seems to go to sleep and I cannot
> get it to ever come back.
>
> I have modified /etc/default/grub to get
>
>         # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
>         GRUB_TERMINAL=console
>
> which I assumed would shut off any graphical silliness,
> but it seems to have had no affect.
>

Regards,

Dmitrijs.