Bug 160636 - unable to display russian characters in console
Summary: unable to display russian characters in console
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rhgb
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks: 156322 Russian
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-06-16 08:28 UTC by Lawrence Lim
Modified: 2014-03-26 00:52 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHBA-2005-714
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-10-05 17:23:00 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2005:714 0 qe-ready SHIPPED_LIVE rhgb bug fix update 2005-10-05 04:00:00 UTC

Description Lawrence Lim 2005-06-16 08:28:30 UTC
Description of problem:
When I am in run level 5, tried to do init 3 then init 5, the russian messages
on the console is not readable.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-7.93.13.EL-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.reboot with LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n into runlevel 5
2.at gdm, ctrl-alt-f1
3.init 3
  
Actual results:
russian characters cannot be displayed properly

Expected results:
russian characters can be displayed

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-06-16 19:29:15 UTC
I can't reproduce this. Switching to VT1 and running 'telinit 3'; I can then see
Russian in, say, the pango HELLO.utf8 file, or by running 'service sshd restart'.

(Well, it's cyrillic. I can only assume it's russian.)

Comment 2 Lawrence Lim 2005-06-17 01:05:12 UTC
What about VT8? Is the information displaying properly as well?

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-06-17 18:09:29 UTC
So, this happens because rhgb is in use.

If this is to work, either rhgb or gdm needs to initialize the VT that X grabbed
(7 or 8) into unicode mode. (See /bin/unicode_start, for example.)


Comment 4 Leon Ho 2005-07-25 03:59:09 UTC
Russian main feature is ACKed (bug 130962), but it is missing acks on this
individual bug. Confirmed with PM/QA/Devel stakeholders on adding back the
missing acks and add to U2CanFix tracker.

Comment 9 Ray Strode [halfline] 2005-08-02 21:03:55 UTC
So I've investigated this a bit.  GDM doesn't really play into the picture at
all.    I've got a fix for rhgb that seems to solve the problem.  I just need to
clean it up.

Note when rhgb finishs it calls /sbin/change_console -r so the init messages
should be going back to tty1.  They're not.  That might be an init bug.

Comment 10 Ray Strode [halfline] 2005-08-03 06:49:13 UTC
Marking MODIFIED for QA.

Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-10-05 17:23:00 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-714.html



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