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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 03.06.11 01:16, Yegor Gemba (gembay at ethz.ch) wrote:

> 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.

Hmm, no clue really, haven't seen this before. But setting fonts on vga
consoles should work too. If you change to a different font (like the
lat0 boring stuff), does it work then?

Lennart

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