Description of problem: After system boot up, I've switched to console (Ctrl-Alt-F2), login and run mc (Midnight Commander) or another application with Russian symbols. Russian symbols not displayed, again. Like this was in Fedora 12. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-9.29 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot system 2. switch to console 3. run application with Russian symbols, as example LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 mc Actual results: White squares instead Russian symbols. Expected results: Russian symbols displayed correctly. Additional info: I've find workaround or patch. If I change this line in /lib/udev/rules.d/10-console.rules: KERNEL=="tty0",><------>RUN+="/lib/udev/console_init %k" like this: KERNEL=="tty*",><------>RUN+="/lib/udev/console_init %k" then Russian symbols displayed correctly.
In earlier dracut (in F14) initramfs image contained system binary /lib/udev/console_init from initscripts. Maybe it is the second way to fix this problem: https://github.com/RussianFedora/dracut/blob/f15%2Ffixes/dracut-009-console_init.patch
systemd-vconsole should be responsible for setting that up. Does invoking /lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup manually make things work for you? What is the content of /etc/sysconfig/i18n?
Yes, after run /lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup in console Russian symbols displayed correctly. cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"
Which systemd version is this? Normally /lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup should run at boot. Can you do "systemctl --full | grep vconsole" after boot when the problem happened and paste the output here?
# yum list installed systemd* systemd.x86_64 25-1.fc15 @updates-testing systemd-units.x86_64 25-1.fc15 @updates-testing I've booted and checked what problem still persist. # systemctl --full | grep vconsole systemd-vconsole-setup.service loaded active exited Setup Virtual Console
Can you boot with "rd.plymouth=0"? Do the fonts appear correctly then?
Yes, with rd.plymouth=0 kernel parameter the fonts appear correctly.
Hmm, Ray, have you heard of such a problem with font loading and Plymouth colliding?
OK, my guess is that this might be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/554172/comments/245 i.e. setfont should probably retry opening /dev/tty0 a couple of times.
Tentatively reassigning this to kbd. The EIO loop is definitely necessary in kbd. It might fix this problem. If it doesn't feel free to reassign back. kbd maintainers, can you please beef up open_a_console() in src/getf_fd.c to loop a couple of times if you get EIO when opening the device? Since the BKL was dropped in the kernel this is unfortunately necessary in userspace to make things work race-freely, see the linked ubuntu bug. We do a similar loop in systemd: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/tree/src/util.c#n2326
(In reply to comment #8) > Hmm, Ray, have you heard of such a problem with font loading and Plymouth > colliding? vconsole setup needs done before plymouth sets the terminal to graphics mode/the framebuffer driver is loaded, IIRC. (font/unicode state is per-VT, but inherited from the prior existing console)
OK, will duplicate against dracut then, which apparently dropped the font loading. Harald, please add an invocation of systemd-vconsole-setup to dracut, before you run plymouth, as discussed on IRC the other day.
Created attachment 496750 [details] proposed patch I was not able to reproduce the problem, but I patched kbd check EIO and loop - anyone willing to test it? SRPM and x86_64 Fedora 15 build is available here: http://vcrhonek.fedorapeople.org/kbd/
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