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Ben Holness
Asked: 2013-11-30 08:28:35 +0800 CST

Ubuntu 12 : dpkg-reconfigure problems

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I have an Ubuntu 12.04 server, freshly installed, however it is set to the wrong timezone. I tried to use dpkg-reconfigure tzdata to correct it, but I can't tell what I am selecting. When I move the cursor keys up and down I get @ characters next to the options (that don't disappear). All of my searching so far has found nothing, other than using dpkg-reconfigure console-setup, which has the same issue.

I am using putty to ssh to the system, there is no GUI installed. I want to know how to fix the keyboard issue so I can use it for other things. Trial and error eventually allowed me to select the correct timezone eventually, so that specific function is no longer an issue.

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    I'm not a Windows man, but it looks like problems with terminal emulation negotiation.

    Have a look at the putty terminal emulation, and check the $TERM variable inside the shell. A good terminal is vt220. (You could try to export TERM=vt220 and run dpkg-reconfigure again).

    You could change timezone by hand. Have a look into this Q&A

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