Bug 801552

Summary:	SYSFONT=True causes error message during boot
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jaroslaw Gorny <jaroslaw.gorny>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, dennis, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mads, nguhahp1, pjones, stanley.king, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Jaroslaw Gorny 2012-03-08 20:16:46 UTC

Description of problem:

/etc/default/grub in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= directive contains an entry "SYSFONT=True"

Such a font does not exist (at least in 'Default' installation of F17 Alpha2 + all updates until today). This causes error during boot.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grub2-1.99-14.fc17.i686

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 17
2. Boot system

  
Actual results:
Error "Cannot find font True" appears during early boot stage.

Expected results:
No error. Either this entry should be disabled, or changed, or font installed by default.

Comment 1 Mads Kiilerich 2012-04-17 22:38:23 UTC

That file has been generated by anaconda ... and it did apparently for some reason put a bad value there.

Please attach the whole /etc/default/grub file and the anaconda log.

How did you install? Manually with an install media?

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2012-04-18 13:35:43 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 799401 ***

Comment 3 Nguha Huirama-Patuwai 2012-06-26 10:26:52 UTC

Nguha

How do you kill this bug?  How can you access dracut and stop it from crashing?

To date, I am overwriting (replacing the word 'true' with DejaVu Sans.  Dracut needs to recognise this change......still trying to fix this....Dracut also tells me that a certain file does not exist....I am trying to download Dracut so that I can see how it works...... June 28 2012