8.04 still locks up

[Cybe R. Wizard]

"Steve Lamb" <grey at dmiyu.org>  said:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:08:15PM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> > Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> > > Nils Kassube wrote:
> > >> would be the place to look but IMHO that isn't very helpful.
> > >> Anyway, I think you can see the final string if you use
> > >> Ctrl-Alt-F2 (or similar, use Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return to your GUI
> > >> session) for a terminal login. There "\n" would be replaced with
> > >> the host name and "\l" would be replaced with the terminal name.
> 
> > > Odd, but, eh, whatever...
> 
> > karl at karl-hardy:/etc$ more issue
> > Ubuntu 8.04.1 \n \l
> 
>     Dave, Karl, why are you two going on about this when Nils
> explained it in the quote both of you did not trim?  the \n \l are
> replaced with the appripriate information when you to to a local TTY
> on the machine.  You can do that by the key sequence he listed.  I
> did it on mine and it is exactly as he said.  It lists "Ubuntu 8.04.1
> igbuntu TTY2" as the string.  IE, it was meant to be seen after getty
> replaces those characters, not to be displayed directly from the
> shell.
> 
I just did this on my machine.
That is, from the GUI I <Ctrl><F1>, logged in then issued
<cat /etc/issue> which returned: Ubuntu 8.04.1 \n \l
with nothing replaced.  To be sure I then said <Ctrl><F2>, logged in and
issued the same command with the same result.
Now I wonder wherein lies the difference between Karl's and my machines
(did I really say that?) and yours and Nil's?

Cybe R. Wizard
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