Description of problem: On various computers I observed strange screen flickering when Fedora is shutting down. This is not normally noticable during startup due to RHGB but it is present too. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-8.45.7-1 How reproducible: Always - just try to e.g. restart network. Steps to Reproduce: 1. shutdown 2. watch the screen 3. Actual results: The screen flickers with every line printed on it. This is especially noticable on slower machines and often with ATI Radeon 9xxx cards. Expected results: No flickers. Additional info: I identified, that this is due to sourcing /etc/init.d/functions. This is sourced with every service start/stop/restart. In this function, it sources also /etc/profile.d/lang.sh. lang.sh starts EVERY time the /bin/unicode_start. In unicode_start there is always /bin/setfont $DEFAULT_UNICODE_FONT. With every setfont the screen flickers. Is that really necessary to set font with every line printed on screen?? I think the same problem is also present in Fedora 7. I report it against FC6 as there I tested this.
Please actually test F7 - there were changes in this area.
Same in F7 and RHEL 5.1
Seems duplicate
238300 Sorry
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 238300 ***