Bug 245478 - screen flickers on every source /etc/init.d/functions
Summary: screen flickers on every source /etc/init.d/functions
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 238300
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: initscripts
Version: 6
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-06-23 20:49 UTC by Adam Pribyl
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-02-27 09:05:47 UTC
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Description Adam Pribyl 2007-06-23 20:49:59 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2007-06-25 16:37:55 UTC
Please actually test F7 - there were changes in this area.

Comment 2 cheguaka 2008-02-25 15:48:09 UTC
Same in F7 and RHEL 5.1 

Comment 3 cheguaka 2008-02-25 16:07:37 UTC
Seems duplicate

Comment 4 cheguaka 2008-02-25 16:08:14 UTC
238300

Sorry

Comment 5 Adam Pribyl 2008-02-27 09:05:47 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 238300 ***


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