Bug 70451 – glitch in text console font (serif to nonserif, and back)

Bug 70451 - glitch in text console font (serif to nonserif, and back)

Summary:	glitch in text console font (serif to nonserif, and back)

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	console-tools (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Eido Inoue
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Reported:	2002-08-01 10:56 EDT by John Reiser
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:45 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-08-23 16:46:56 EDT
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Description John Reiser 2002-08-01 10:56:59 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529

Description of problem:
The font for the text console has a very annoying glitch.  During services
startup at boot, and during shutdown, and any time I get root privileges using
"su", the font changes for 1/4 of a second and changes right back.  It looks
like a dynamic "wrinkle", and it is very disconcerting.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.In 80x25 mode with anaconda-configured default console font LatArCyrHeb-16:
from a regular non-privileged user account, put a lot of 'y' characters on the
screen by running "echo yyy...yyyy" several times.
2. Run 'su', give the root password, and watch carefully before the shell prompt
appears.
3.
	

Actual Results:  The screen "wrinkles" as the font changes between non-serif and
serif, and back.

Expected Results:  No font changes.

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Comment 1 Curtis Nelson 2002-08-08 16:20:48 EDT

I have this problem as well.  I use 'setfont' to reset the console and clear up
the character jumble that gets created.

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