Bug 1250260 - anaconda does not use official 'default' console font eurlatgr
Summary: anaconda does not use official 'default' console font eurlatgr
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: lorax
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brian Lane
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-08-04 21:31 UTC by Adam Williamson
Modified: 2015-09-22 18:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 23.17-1.fc23
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-09-11 03:57:11 UTC
Type: Bug
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Red Hat Bugzilla 1265354 0 unspecified CLOSED anaconda does not use official 'default' console font 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

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Description Adam Williamson 2015-08-04 21:31:21 UTC
Per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NewDefaultConsoleFont Fedora's 'default' console font is supposed to be eurlatgr as of Fedora 22, but anaconda does not use it. (Prior to F22 the default was supposed to be 'latarcyrheb-sun16'; F21 anaconda does not use that either).

It seems that systemd loads the font specified in /etc/vconsole.conf if it exists, otherwise it does not load a font at all, meaning the font used will be the firmware's font. In the anaconda environment there is no /etc/vconsole.conf .

bcl posted a patch - https://paste.fedoraproject.org/251555/14387227/ - which should add a vconsole.conf and, if our theory is correct, solve this bug. I'm going to test it.

The impact of this is fairly low for most cases, except it caused me some headaches with openQA...

Comment 1 David Shea 2015-08-05 11:45:22 UTC
What about bug 1209460?

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-08-08 00:57:40 UTC
lorax-23.16-1.fc23 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 23.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/lorax-23.16-1.fc23

Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2015-08-10 23:10:28 UTC
davidshea: the firmware font is unlikely to have any better glyph coverage than eurlatgr, so we're not likely to make anything worse by loading it.

We could try and get cute and load the appropriate font according to langtable after the user goes through the Welcome screen, I guess, but that seems like extra work and I'm not sure how critical it is; I don't think there's much need for people to use non-ASCII characters at the system console during install. I would never have noticed this if not for the openQA match problems.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-08-31 18:52:34 UTC
lorax-23.17-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update lorax'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14454

Comment 5 Adam Williamson 2015-09-10 00:02:05 UTC
Confirmed fixed in 23.17-1 (i.e. Beta TC4).

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2015-09-11 03:57:10 UTC
lorax-23.17-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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