Pressing 'b' in tty terminal outputs ' " ' (inverted commas)

hypoglycemic · 2010-09-20 09:19:34

Needless to say this is very frustrating :\ It is the only key acting strange.

Started today, do not remember upgrading anything in about two weeks. In non terminal applications it is fine and makes a normal b. In passwords it is just b as well (passowrds with b in them work.) SSHing in to the machine make the inverted commas come up. Changed the keyboard and it is still the same.

I did correct some locales that needed to be generated but it did not fix the problem. (Default UTF-8, generated fallback latin-1)

How can I go about fixing this up?

(Edited p to be b, keymaps to locales)

Last edited by hypoglycemic (2010-09-21 05:09:33)

hypoglycemic · 2010-09-23 11:38:06

Bump. Ideas anyone?

Army · 2010-09-23 12:38:34

Not sure, but please show the complete output of

locale

And what keymap is defined in the rc.conf?

hypoglycemic · 2010-09-24 07:36:15

LANG=en_AU.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_AU.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_AU.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_AU.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_AU.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_AU.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.utf8"
LC_ALL=

KEYMAP="us"

I do get an error message come up on boot and shutdown, I am guessing it means that the b to " thing is makeing some script fail. Is there a way to get the output on boot/shutdown to confirm this (it shows up in the gap between login promp and gdm starting.)

hypoglycemic · 2010-09-25 15:01:05

Any ideas anyone? My b key is feeling rather neglected in the terminal.

Leonid.I · 2010-09-25 18:33:43

hypoglycemic wrote:

Any ideas anyone? My b key is feeling rather neglected in the terminal.

Have you tried using en_US locale? That is LANG=en_US.utf8... If this works, then there is a problem with the en_AU locale, right?

hypoglycemic · 2010-10-01 10:05:32

Leonid.I wrote:

hypoglycemic wrote:
Any ideas anyone? My b key is feeling rather neglected in the terminal.
Have you tried using en_US locale? That is LANG=en_US.utf8... If this works, then there is a problem with the en_AU locale, right?

Problem remains with the change of locale

Maybe the error message on boot holds more info. Is there a log of the boot ptocess somewhere that i can check. dmesg does not appear to be what I am looking for; is there soemthing else that will help?

hypoglycemic · 2010-10-05 01:15:33

Update: have sucessful changed to locale to en_US and the problem remains.

On a side note this was made more difficult becasue of the existance to the .dmrc file that does basically whatever it wants with regards to overriding rc.conf. Although I did manage to get the locales fixed up properly so that C and posix show up. I did not put the entry into the rc file propery. en_US.UTF-8 should be en_US.utf8

So bad locales seems to be out of the question, could a wierd keymap be doing this? It is set on us at the moment.

hypoglycemic · 2010-10-09 09:40:44

I would really love some help with this still. I have had a look at the keymaps used, both the terminal and gnome are set to the same so that does not appear to be a problem.

Anyone have soem insights into what i could try to fix this?

Leonid.I · 2010-10-09 19:10:17

hypoglycemic wrote:

I would really love some help with this still. I have had a look at the keymaps used, both the terminal and gnome are set to the same so that does not appear to be a problem.
Anyone have soem insights into what i could try to fix this?

OK, this https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=66615? Also, what about that .dmrc?

Last edited by Leonid.I (2010-10-09 19:11:58)

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Pressing 'b' in tty terminal outputs ' " ' (inverted commas)

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