Bug 831013 - Boot delay while message "Cannot open font file True" displays
Summary: Boot delay while message "Cannot open font file True" displays
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 799401
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 17
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-06-12 00:41 UTC by Kevin
Modified: 2012-09-13 17:23 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-06-12 00:50:38 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Kevin 2012-06-12 00:41:53 UTC
Description of problem:
My system boot is delayed while the message "Cannot open font file True" displays.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grub2-2.0-0.25.beta4.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Boot the system
2.  Look for the message
3.  Observe the boot up delay
  
Actual results:
Boot up is delayed for about 30 seconds, maybe a minute?

Expected results:
System should boot up right away.

Additional info:
I'm not sure whether this happens after grub2 hands over the boot process to the kernel, or whether it's still under grub2's control.  I don't know how to tell.

Thanks....

Comment 1 Mads Kiilerich 2012-06-12 00:50:38 UTC
It is apparently a bug in the installer that will be fixed for f18. It is too late to fix it for f17.

A workaround is described in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799401#c23
lmgtfy also points at
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=277213
http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/1798/cannot-find-font-file-true

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 799401 ***

Comment 2 Kevin 2012-06-13 05:25:10 UTC
The suggested fix in this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799401 also fixed my problem.  Together with removing a bogus swap partition from /etc/fstab now my system boot time is quite fast.  I'm very happy about that.  Thanks for the pointers!


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