Package: installation-reports Severity: minor Just want to let you know after a fresh install, when booting into "(recovery mode)" from the grub menu, and typing the root passwd, # cat ^C doesn't interrupt cat, etc. One needs ^Z, then "kill %" to stop it.
Yes, these just reported the same as on a normal fully working terminal: # stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 48; columns 128; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; discard = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; -parenb -parodd -cmspar cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -ignbrk brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc -ixany imaxbel iutf8 opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke -flusho -extproc # stty -g 6502:5:4bf:8a3b:3:1c:7f:15:4:0:1:0:11:13:1a:0:12:f:17:16:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 So I don't know what the problem is. Note I had only installed the packages contained on Debian GNU/Linux 9.8.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20190216-11:59"; with no internet connection. Sure, after adding more packages and rebooting, the problem went away. So do try it with the bare bones install from just http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/ with no network connection to download extra packages. The only other odd thing I did was add nomodeset to linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-8-amd64 ... in grub.
