From Bugzilla Helper: 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. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 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. Additional info:
I have this problem as well. I use 'setfont' to reset the console and clear up the character jumble that gets created.