I have found a bug in BB-P. In the last version of BackupMenu Robbie was kind enough to add a framebuffer console. This allows you to access the console through BM. One problem...

Without BB-P it works fine.

With BB-P it gets as far as asking for your username then crashes back to the BM main menu when you press return (to enter your username). It gives the error: "applet not found". This is the BB error for when a BB applet has been called but does not exist. Useually the name of the erroneously called applet is given in the error (foobar: applet not found). With BB-P installed there is no name supplied.

I can confirm it is the BB-P package as if I remove it (apt-get uninstall) then try root console again it works, re-install, it fails.


The last line in BM when console is selected is:

I assume BB then has to run 'login' or 'logon' or whatever and it is somehow failing. I don't really know my understanding of how a new shell is spawned is a bit...uh...thin.