Bug 87921
| Summary: | text mode startup: system font corrupt | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Graham Leggett <minfrin> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | dave, mitr, rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-09-10 17:07:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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What locale are you using? What's the content of /etc/sysconfig/i18n? The default locale selected was "english south africa". The contents of /etc/sysconf/i18n is: [root@rachel root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="en_ZA.UTF-8" SUPPORTED="af_ZA:af:en_GB.UTF-8:en_GB:en:en_ZA.UTF-8:en_ZA:en:en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" I get the same thing, my /etc/sysconfig/i18n is LANG=en_US My video card is an NVidia GeForce4 MX Just to confirm: this bug is still outstanding on the most recent patched version of Redhat v9.0, and is still just as annoying. Hm, I've duplicated that /etc/sysconfig/i18n and I can't reproduce this. I wonder if it's something specific to loading a screen font on that graphics chipset. Does it happen no matter what you set SYSFONT to? We eventually ditched the motherboard and installed a different one, and the problem went away. I think this is probably an obscure corruption with old hardware. OK, closing as WORKSFORME (as it does). |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030318 Description of problem: - Go through a vanilla install of Redhat v9.0. Select to boot into text mode. - Start machine for the first time. At the point where the system font is set, the entire text console becomes corrupt. Normal ascii characters are mapped to what look like greek and control characters. The space is mapped to some random character. Before the system font is set, the character set is fine. The only workaround to this is to log in blindly and start X, but otherwise text mode is hosed. Is setsysfont really necessary at all? The machine has a Trident Cyberblade graphics card, which was autodetected during the X configuration. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 7.14-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: xxxx Additional info: