[systemd-devel] systemd-vconsole-setup: /usr/bin/setfont failed with error code 71

[Yegor Gemba]

Hello,
I am testing systemd on Arch Linux and I get following errors:

<30>systemd-vconsole-setup[59]: putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
<28>systemd-vconsole-setup[59]: /usr/bin/setfont failed with error code 71.

/etc/vconsole.conf is:
KEYMAP=de-latin1-nodeadkeys
FONT=ter-v20n # this font is actually installed

systemd fails to set the desired console font and I get the default one.
I am able to overcome the problem by changing the
systemd-vconsole-setup.service from
#
After=systemd-readahead-collect.service systemd-readahead-replay.service
Before=sysinit.target shutdown.target
#
to
#
After=sysinit.target
Before=shutdown.target
#
the only explanation I find is that /usr/bin/setfont can only set fonts on 
framebuffer consoles and if it's run before udev (which, in my case, brings up 
radeon module, which, in its turn, brings up fb console) it can not set font 
on non-fb console.
systemd-vconsole-setup.service should probably take this into account.

–– Yegor