Bug 1368

Summary: rc.sysinit changes console font
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: sds
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Description sds 1999-02-28 04:52:46 UTC 
I set vga= in lilo.conf and /sbin/setsysfont called
from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit screws it up.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-03-08 18:55:59 UTC 
what version of initscripts are you running?
Comment 2 sds 1999-03-09 14:13:59 UTC 
$ rpm -q initscripts
initscripts-3.91-1
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 1999-03-09 15:53:59 UTC 
what does your /etc/sysconfig/i18n say?
Comment 4 sds 1999-03-09 16:09:59 UTC 
the file is empty:

$ ls -l /etc/sysconfig/i18n
   0 -rw-rw-r--   1 root     root            0 Dec  2 20:05
/etc/sysconfig/i18n

while I'd appreciate being able to display cyrillic-koi8 in the
console, I find preserving the size (60x80) more important.
Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 1999-03-10 16:46:59 UTC 
Grumble. It shouldn't be doing that anymore.
Does /sbin/setsysfont look like the following?

#!/bin/sh

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n ]; then
  . /etc/sysconfig/i18n
fi

if [ -x /usr/bin/setfont ]; then

  if [ -n "$SYSFONT" -a -n "$UNIMAP" ]; then
    /usr/bin/setfont $SYSFONT -u $UNIMAP
  elif [ -n "$SYSFONT" ]; then
    /usr/bin/setfont $SYSFONT
#  else
#    /usr/bin/setfont
  fi

else
  echo "can't set font"
  exit 1
fi
Comment 6 sds 1999-03-10 23:28:59 UTC 
yep, that's exactly what I have.
Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 1999-03-11 16:37:59 UTC 
Check through your initscripts to see if $SYSFONT is assigned
somewhere else; if it isn't, it obviously shouldn't be
calling setfont.
Comment 8 Bill Nottingham 1999-03-19 22:06:59 UTC 
at this point, I can't reproduce this here.
Using recent initscripts, the console stays the
same when booting with vga=ext, vga=132x43 (or whatever.)