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Black666
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 Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 8:38 am Post subject: Help! Weird signs on screen |
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Hi!
I'm trying to install Gentoo 1.2
So far everything went fine (I started with a stage1 installation).
bootstrap.sh worked and even emerge system completed without any problems. My problem is at step 13 - Final steps: timezone:
You have to do a
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/path/to/timezonefile /etc/localtime
After finding my zonefile (/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Vienna) I was curious and did a "cat /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Vienna" and from that moment on I only have weird signs on the screen.
I can type in any commands and it also prints the output of the command, I just don't know what because the signs are not a,b,c,d,e,.... they are things like -,+,|,...
Is there a way to get back to the "standard signs"?
I don't want to begin all over again because it has taken a time on my Celeron700 to get to this point.
But I can't go on with the installation because I don't see what I type and don't know what the output means.
Why does a cat /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Vienna cause that trouble?? |
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rac
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 9:08 am Post subject: Re: Help! Weird signs on screen |
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| Black666 wrote: | | Why does a cat /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Vienna cause that trouble?? |
It probably contains some escape codes that confused your terminal. Does typing 'stty sane', followed by the return key, solve your problem?
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Black666
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 9:14 am Post subject: |
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Unfortunately no 
There must be a way to get the normal signs back ....  |
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rac
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 9:17 am Post subject: |
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| Black666 wrote: | | Unfortunately no |
How about switching to another virtual terminal? BTW, using 'less' instead of 'cat' can protect you from these problems in the future.
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Black666
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 9:35 am Post subject: |
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Thnx ... the other consoles are just fine.
Do I have to chroot again at the new console? |
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Black666
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 10:53 am Post subject: |
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I have chrooted again and also did a env-update and source /etc/profile again and so far it seems like it works.
My box is currently compiling the kernel...let's hope everything will work. |
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meyerm
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 11:14 am Post subject: |
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You could have tried "reset" in your terminal. This should almost always work... (I'm doing such things too...  ) |
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Black666
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 11:46 am Post subject: |
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I booted my new gentoo box 5 minutes ago.
Seems like everything works fine.
Thnx rac for the hint. |
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