Hi, I bet you must have installed your system by chosing non-English language as your choice.
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:09:41PM -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > so ive been running debian lenny for about a week. everythings been > hunky-dorry until this evening when i turned on my laptop and was > greeted with several seconds of this during the boot up process. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/godblessbotox/3753646865/ This is Linux console. This does not support Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters. You are clearly chosen some non-English language locale as your default. > along with that gobbely gook it beeps for about 3 seconds. > > am i boned or is there any hope of a recovery to this? # dpkg-reconfigure locales Read http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch08.en.html#_the_reconfiguration_of_the_locale Chose US English As for setting up for your locale only in X to avoid this, read: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch08.en.html#_specific_locale_only_under_x_window Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
