Bug 417351 - Wrong codepage in console after filesystem check fails
Summary: Wrong codepage in console after filesystem check fails
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rhgb
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-12-09 17:57 UTC by Alexey Torkhov
Modified: 2009-07-14 17:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 17:18:41 UTC
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Description Alexey Torkhov 2007-12-09 17:57:38 UTC
Description of problem:
After filesystem check fails text in console is written with wrong
font(codepage), localized messages couldn't be read. But after logging in
(entering root password) fonts are becoming good. Also, before rhgb has started,
fonts are also good.

There is no such issue when booting in runlevel 3. So I suppose rhgb screws
console params somehow and they aren't restored back with initscripts.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhgb-0.17.7-3.fc8

How reproducible:
Let fsck fail at boot.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add entry "LABEL=notexists /mnt/mnt ext3 defaults 1 2" to /etc/fstab to make
fsck fail.
2. Reboot.
3. Wait till system boots and asked you to enter password.

Actual results:
Message (in english "An error occurred during the file system...") is
unreadable. Looks like written with wrong codepage.

Expected results:
Normal codepage for localized messages.

Additional info:
In /etc/sysconfig/i18n:
LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-12-17 16:07:35 UTC
We do set the console to utf8 mode and force the font to latarcyrheb-sun16.  We
shouldn't need to do that anymore, now that the kernel does the right thing
automatically.

I should drop the call and push an update.

Comment 2 Alexey Torkhov 2008-06-25 08:20:56 UTC
Seems, this is still an issue in F-9. Please fix - it can confuse users.


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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 17:18:41 UTC
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