Bug 1265354

Summary:	anaconda does not use official 'default' console font
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Adam Williamson <awilliam>
Component:	lorax	Assignee:	Brian Lane <bcl>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Version:	7.2	CC:	Frodox, jstodola, lmiksik, mkovarik
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Last Closed:	2016-11-03 23:43:47 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Adam Williamson 2015-09-22 18:09:16 UTC

Following some discussion on #anaconda this morning I noticed that EL 7 has a bug which was recently fixed for Fedora as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250260 .

If you boot an EL 7 installer image (I checked the most recent CentOS netinstaller image, but I'm assuming they're all the same), /etc/vconsole.conf is missing. This means that systemd-vconsole-setup will not load any console font; the system firmware console font will be used, and this is likely to not include non-Latin characters.

I believe EL 7's official default console font is still latarcyrheb-sun16 - Fedora changed to eurlatgr in Fedora 22, but I don't think that change has been applied to EL 7. So the commit to fix this on master was:

https://github.com/rhinstaller/lorax/commit/57b751685711e2e0b26ab0c0f663a2b2b1b003f3

but for EL 7 it should be adjusted to use 'latarcyrheb-sun16' rather than 'eurlatgr' (the 'eurlatgr' font does not actually exist in current EL 7 images).

This is kinda in the same area as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182562 , but more general; even though that fix should handle most cases of 'running a text install in a non-Latin language' I think it's still worth doing this in case there are any cases where someone might want to view non-Latin text in the installer environment that aren't covered by that fix. I don't think this would *conflict* with that fix, as that stuff all takes effect long after systemd-vconsole-setup has run.

Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2015-09-22 18:15:33 UTC

Note for users hitting this with current EL 7 images: you can force a specific console font with the 'vconsole.font' kernel parameter, e.g. 'vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16'. For a successful text install in Russian, my recipe is this:

inst.lang=ru_RU.UTF-8 inst.text vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 vconsole.keymap=ru

the 'vconsole.keymap' parameter handles https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265346 .

Comment 2 Brian Lane 2016-02-20 00:26:28 UTC

It looks like kbd-misc needs to add the font before we can do this.

Comment 4 Michal Kovarik 2016-08-17 09:36:21 UTC

Verified on lorax-19.6.77-1, file /etc/vconsole.conf is available in image.

# cat /etc/vconsole.conf
KEYMAP=us
FONT=eurlatgr

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-03 23:43:47 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2165.html