Bug 84788
| Summary: | rc.sysconfig console font loading bug | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Péter, Soós <sp> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | mitr, rvokal |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-02-21 17:56:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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The font (and UTF-8 mode) is set again *after* you log in to the VT. Every time you log out, console gets reset to the initial state. That's not to say it is not a problem: E.g. log out, press Ctrl-Alt-DEL. The initscripts messages output when switching to runlevel 6 will be garbled if the locale uses non-ASCII chars, because the console is not in UTF-8 mode (I don't know whether the font is loaded). The right way to fix this would really be making sure that the VTs are in the desired mode *all the time*, not only when a user is logged on them. I'm not sure how easily this can be done though. In response to the initial bug - no, you need to init the console *before* you load the font for it to work right. This is a hack workaround; I'm fairly sure this is a kernel bug that the font but not the mapping table are inherited on VC creation. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030204 Description of problem: rc.sysconfig init virtual consoles before loading console font. It causes the system font loads the first virtual console only. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure system font via /etc/sysconfig/i18n 2. reboot you machine Actual Results: The configured font appears on the first virtual console only Expected Results: The configured font appears on _all_ virtual console only Additional info: Here is the fixed part of rc.sysconfig file: # Load system font if [ -x /sbin/setsysfont ]; then [ -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n ] && . /etc/sysconfig/i18n case "$LANG" in *.utf8*|*.UTF-8*) action $"Setting default font ($SYSFONT): " /bin/unicode_start $SYSFONT ;; *) action $"Setting default font ($SYSFONT): " /sbin/setsysfont ;; esac for i in 2 3 4 5 6; do > /dev/tty$i done fi