Bug 160636

Summary:	unable to display russian characters in console
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Lawrence Lim <llim>
Component:	rhgb	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	eng-i18n-bugs, hp, tools-bugs
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Fixed In Version:	RHBA-2005-714	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	156322, 160591

Description Lawrence Lim 2005-06-16 08:28:30 UTC

Description of problem:
When I am in run level 5, tried to do init 3 then init 5, the russian messages
on the console is not readable.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-7.93.13.EL-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.reboot with LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n into runlevel 5
2.at gdm, ctrl-alt-f1
3.init 3
  
Actual results:
russian characters cannot be displayed properly

Expected results:
russian characters can be displayed

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-06-16 19:29:15 UTC

I can't reproduce this. Switching to VT1 and running 'telinit 3'; I can then see
Russian in, say, the pango HELLO.utf8 file, or by running 'service sshd restart'.

(Well, it's cyrillic. I can only assume it's russian.)

Comment 2 Lawrence Lim 2005-06-17 01:05:12 UTC

What about VT8? Is the information displaying properly as well?

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-06-17 18:09:29 UTC

So, this happens because rhgb is in use.

If this is to work, either rhgb or gdm needs to initialize the VT that X grabbed
(7 or 8) into unicode mode. (See /bin/unicode_start, for example.)

Comment 4 Leon Ho 2005-07-25 03:59:09 UTC

Russian main feature is ACKed (bug 130962), but it is missing acks on this
individual bug. Confirmed with PM/QA/Devel stakeholders on adding back the
missing acks and add to U2CanFix tracker.

Comment 9 Ray Strode [halfline] 2005-08-02 21:03:55 UTC

So I've investigated this a bit.  GDM doesn't really play into the picture at
all.    I've got a fix for rhgb that seems to solve the problem.  I just need to
clean it up.

Note when rhgb finishs it calls /sbin/change_console -r so the init messages
should be going back to tty1.  They're not.  That might be an init bug.

Comment 10 Ray Strode [halfline] 2005-08-03 06:49:13 UTC

Marking MODIFIED for QA.

Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-10-05 17:23:00 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-714.html