Re: vi almost unusable in recovery console

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:35 PM, NoOp <glgxg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

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