Bug 831013

Summary:	Boot delay while message "Cannot open font file True" displays
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kevin <kevinc>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	17	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, bcl, dennis, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mads, mebeigy, pjones, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vserbine
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Last Closed:	2012-06-12 00:50:38 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Kevin 2012-06-12 00:41:53 UTC

Description of problem:
My system boot is delayed while the message "Cannot open font file True" displays.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grub2-2.0-0.25.beta4.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Boot the system
2.  Look for the message
3.  Observe the boot up delay
  
Actual results:
Boot up is delayed for about 30 seconds, maybe a minute?

Expected results:
System should boot up right away.

Additional info:
I'm not sure whether this happens after grub2 hands over the boot process to the kernel, or whether it's still under grub2's control.  I don't know how to tell.

Thanks....

Comment 1 Mads Kiilerich 2012-06-12 00:50:38 UTC

It is apparently a bug in the installer that will be fixed for f18. It is too late to fix it for f17.

A workaround is described in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799401#c23
lmgtfy also points at
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=277213
http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/1798/cannot-find-font-file-true

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

Comment 2 Kevin 2012-06-13 05:25:10 UTC

The suggested fix in this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799401 also fixed my problem.  Together with removing a bogus swap partition from /etc/fstab now my system boot time is quite fast.  I'm very happy about that.  Thanks for the pointers!