From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030313 Description of problem: If you cause the system to fsck files systems on boot (incidentally is there any nicer way to do this than a hard reset of a running machine), and accept the optional file check, I am seeing one or two funny characters at the start of the progress lines. The boot reports my character set as lat9-16. This may just be a cosmetic bug.
What does your /etc/sysconfig/i18n look like?
/etc/sysconfig/i18n: LANG="en_GB" SUPPORTED="en_GB:en:en_US:en" # SYSFONT="lat0-16" # SYSFONTACM="iso01" SYSFONT="lat9-16" CHARSET="8859-1" Judging by the timestamp, the file dates from an 8.0 beta. Incidentally, by comparing with showconsolefont the characters looked to be 0x01 and 0x02.
Change the lat9-16 to lat0-16, or lat0-sun16. lat9-16 is Just Wrong(tm), and will cause wrong characters.
I still get weird characters with lat0-sun16, maybe now the Right(tm) weird characters, but still weird.
Actually, the real fix was to add en_??.UTF-8 to the SUPPORTED line, and set LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" I am leaving this bug open so you can decide if anyone else is likely to have the same problem. If you think not, close it.
Reproduced, that's odd.
Is http://people.redhat.com/laroche/e2fsprogs-1.35-0.1.src.rpm fixing this? Thanks, Florian La Roche
No the problem is still reproduceable with that version.
Updating product and version, as it is still present in FC1
I do not see these chars in FC2 test with LANG=en_GB (e2fsprogs-1.35). I am using latarcyrheb-sun16 as font.
Can you test the new version, please?
It is still broken for me with LANG="en_GB" SUPPORTED="en_GB:en:en_US:en" SYSFONT="lat0-sun16" CHARSET="8859-1" and e2fsprogs-1.35-7
Fedora Core 1 is maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thanks! NOTE: Fedora Core 1 is reaching the final end of support even by the Legacy project. After Fedora Core 6 Test 2 is released (currently scheduled for July 26th), there will be no more security updates for FC1. Please use these next two weeks to upgrade any remaining FC1 systems to a current release.
Closed per above message and lack of response. Note that FC1 and FC2 are not even supported by Fedora Legacy anymore.