problem with recovery mode in 9.10

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Tue, 10/27/09, Glenn Holmer <shadowm at lyonlabs.org> wrote:

> From: Glenn Holmer <shadowm at lyonlabs.org>
> Subject: problem with recovery mode in 9.10
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 6:15 AM
> In the Karmic RC, when I boot to
> recovery mode and drop to a root shell,
> every keystroke is treated as though I had hit Enter
> afterward, so I'm
> unable to enter the root password.  ctrl-D reacts the
> same way, so I
> can't use recovery mode at all.
> 
> Anybody else seen this/have a workaround?
> 
Yes, something is very wrong in Karmic recovery mode.  It is useless.
In my case, I have two Karmics installed on separate partitions, the last one was a recent nightly. Recovery mode works on neither. I can't even scroll down the fixit menu on boot up.  The screen corrupts with error messages when I try to scroll down the list and it then is frozen. I can scroll maybe one item before this happens or hit the "end" key and the next move the screen corruption occurs.  I don't know if a bug has been filed or not as I haven't googled yet but I'm sure ready to add my .02.  Not being able to use recovery mode is a critical bug, IMHO.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net

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