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On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:35:11 +0000
Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Grant,
> Thanks Brad. I am indeed thinking of a clean install of Debian - only
> my old /home remaining (since it's on a separate partition anyway).
You may have an issue or two there. Easily solved, though. Usually
things go awry because UID & GID don't agree from one distro to another.
> The upgrade seems to be progressing OK now - it has settled down a bit
> - but for some reason the system has stopped taking keyboard input. I
> tell you, this is the first time I've had to use an on-screen keyboard
> to answer apt's questions during an upgrade! Crazy!
Only ever installed distros from scratch three times. Once with
Mandrake, which I then upgraded with subsequent releases to Mandriva. At
that point, there was massive failure, so I installed Debian and worked
with that for a few years, until the hardware got left behind and the
system ran too slow. Then bought current hardware and installed Debian
testing 64 bit.
The point being that I never witnessed a keyboard become unrecognised
in my, admittedly limited, experience. As you said; Crazy. :-/
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