Bug 904954

Summary: systemd-vconsole-setup[414]: /bin/setfont failed with error code 66
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ray Evans <jaguar07>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: johannbg, lnykryn, metherid, mschmidt, msekleta, notting, plautrba, systemd-maint, vpavlin
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Description Ray Evans 2013-01-28 09:21:23 UTC
Created attachment 688802 [details]
Error indicated in messages log file.

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Comment 1 Michal Schmidt 2013-01-28 13:12:09 UTC
From the log:

Jan 28 01:05:13 THOR systemd-vconsole-setup[414]: Cannot open font file True
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Jan 28 01:05:13 THOR systemd-vconsole-setup[414]: /bin/setfont failed with error code 66.


Please paste the contents of /etc/vconsole.conf and /etc/sysconfig/i18n.

Comment 2 Kay Sievers 2013-01-28 15:08:12 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Jan 28 01:05:13 THOR systemd-vconsole-setup[414]: Cannot open font file True

That looks like an early anaconda bug from the beta time, which wrote
"FONT=True" into the config file :)

Comment 3 Ray Evans 2013-01-29 03:20:17 UTC
There is no vconsole.conf in /etc

The contents of /etc/sysconfig/i18n:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="True"

Comment 4 Ray Evans 2013-01-29 03:30:13 UTC
modified /etc/sysconfig/i18n to
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

Errors in /var/log/messages no longer exist.

This system was a clean install of Fedora 17 x64 release.  There was never a alpha or beta release of F17 installed.

Comment 5 Michal Schmidt 2013-01-29 12:49:39 UTC
I'm not exactly sure which versions of Anaconda wrote the "SYSFONT=True" line. The current version does not do that anymore. Since there are no bad consequences of the error, I don't think we need to add any workarounds for this to systemd.