Bug 88238
| Summary: | "SYSFONT: undefined variable" error when logging in on console | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | David Baron <dbaron> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | rvokal |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 7.19-1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-05-02 19:53:36 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Fixed in 7.19-1 or so. |
Description of problem: When I log in on the console, I get the error "SYSFONT: undefined variable", and my .cshrc and .login files aren't executed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-7.14-1 How reproducible: I think reproducing this requires what I have in my /etc/sysconfig/i18n (which I admit to editing by hand, although to what I think may have been the default in a clean install of RedHat 8 or 9 rather than an upgrade). My /etc/sysconfig/i18n contains: ----- LANG="en_US.UTF-8" ----- Steps to Reproduce: 1. Press Ctrl-Left Alt-F1 to get to virtual terminal 1. 2. Log in. Actual results: Error message "SYSFONT: undefined variable", and .cshrc and .login not executed. Expected results: No error, .cshrc and .login executed. Additional info: The problem seems to be located in /etc/profile.d/lang.csh . I fixed it locally with the following change. (I don't know what this script was intended to do, so I have no idea if it's right.) --- /etc/profile.d/lang.csh 2003-03-29 14:15:45.000000000 -0500 +++ /etc/profile.d/lang.csh 2003-04-07 22:56:55.000000000 -0400 @@ -74,10 +74,12 @@ if ( $?TERM ) then if ( "$TERM" == "linux" ) then if ( `/sbin/consoletype` == "vt" ) then - if ( $?SYSFONTACM ) then - unicode_start $SYSFONT $SYSFONTACM - else - unicode_start $SYSFONT + if ( $?SYSFONT ) then + if ( $?SYSFONTACM ) then + unicode_start $SYSFONT $SYSFONTACM + else + unicode_start $SYSFONT + endif endif endif endif