[gentoo-user] strange one with gentoo guest in vmware

[gentoo-user] strange one with gentoo guest in vmware

[Harry Putnam]

I'm trying to get a gentoo guest running in vmware app on windowsxp.

I just installed a prebuilt appliance (gentoo 2008) and am now
updating it.

I got the kernel rebuilt and updated to 2.6.32-r5 and rebooted into
that.

I now have all uppercase at the cmdline.  The actual keyboard is not
in uppercase mode... and oddly the gentoo install apparently is not
seeing uppercase at the cmdline since cmds that are supposed to be in
lower case all work.

typing what I see as `LS' at the command line does what `ls' is supposed
to do and lists the directory, so gentoo is seeing lowercase where I
see uppercase.

Anyone have a clue what this might be about?

I typed dmesg thinking to maybe append it here.  I saw `DMESG', when
the printout flashed by it was all uppercas then the OS froze...

Will now have to hard reboot it to see if I can see whats going on.

Prior to booting the new kernel it ran on 2.6.24-r8 and seemed to run
normally. 

Re: [gentoo-user] strange one with gentoo guest in vmware

[Stroller]

On 18 Feb 2010, at 15:27, Harry Putnam wrote:
> ...
> I now have all uppercase at the cmdline.  The actual keyboard is not
> in uppercase mode... and oddly the gentoo install apparently is not
> seeing uppercase at the cmdline since cmds that are supposed to be in
> lower case all work.
>
> typing what I see as `LS' at the command line does what `ls' is  
> supposed
> to do and lists the directory, so gentoo is seeing lowercase where I
> see uppercase.
>
> Anyone have a clue what this might be about?

I believe that *nix does this natively & transparently, so that it  
continues to function with ancient physical VTs & teletypes which lack  
a shift key.

I have this idea that the system will try to accommodate you this way  
if you attempt to log in with the CAPS LOCK on. I can't quite get this  
to work here, it seems to reject my password, but on at least one  
system I see the logon prompt change to ALL CAPS if I log on using my  
username but capitalised (i.e. "STROLLER" instead of "stroller").

Is it possible you have the CAPS LOCK stuck on your VM but not on your  
host system? I've not used VMs, so please excuse me if this is a  
ridiculous impossibility.

Stroller.

[gentoo-user] Re: strange one with gentoo guest in vmware

[Harry Putnam]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> I'm trying to get a gentoo guest running in vmware app on windowsxp.
>
> I just installed a prebuilt appliance (gentoo 2008) and am now
> updating it.
>
> I got the kernel rebuilt and updated to 2.6.32-r5 and rebooted into
> that.
>
> I now have all uppercase at the cmdline.  The actual keyboard is not
> in uppercase mode... and oddly the gentoo install apparently is not
> seeing uppercase at the cmdline since cmds that are supposed to be in
> lower case all work.

[...]

Never mind... I've trashed that bagvapp gentoo appliance and built my
vmware gentoo guest from livecd.

  I tried the (now aged) bagvapp vmware gentoo appliance because I've
  had big troubles in the past getting a kernel to boot inside vmware.
  I thought it might be easier to update the bagvapp appliance.

  This time, after piddling with the latest kernel, I got it to boot
  right on the first try .... (chest swelling to new dimensions)
  But that Uppercase thing was a corker...