vi almost unusable in recovery console

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:35 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 07/31/2008 10:36 AM, Brian McKee wrote:
>
>> I'm off to file a bug - wish I knew what the right package to complain
>> about was.
>> I'm kinda shocked nobody's noticed this before.  Maybe I'm missing
>> something obvious - or maybe everybody just uses the live cd for this
>> stuff normally.
> I just loaded up "rescue a broken system" and see what you mean. FYI:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nano/+bug/154396
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rescue/+bug/35400
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rescue/+bug/228249

Your Launchpad foo is better than mine - I only spotted some of those.

My bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253758

> If you have a working network connection on the machine:
> # apt-get install bogl-bterm
> That installs bterm and thereafter you will be able to use vi or nano in
> "rescue a broken system". This is  a pretty serious bug IMO as you
> shouldn't have to have a network connection the "rescue a broken system".

Aha !  Thank you - that does help me out.  I hadn't realized the
problem was that bterm wasn't even installed.
Maybe that's why the other bugs that mention disabling framebuffer worked.

I'll update the bug.

Brian