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console-setup package

Changing tty font does not work

Bug #1799713 reported by Vyacheslav on 2018-10-24

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	console-setup (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Changing font in "/etc/default/console-setup" does not work

After reboot in generated file "/etc/console-setup/cached_setup_font.sh" needed font passed to setfont twice.
For example if was specified
FONT="Uni3-Terminus12x6.psf.gz"
in cached_setup_font.sh will be
setfont '/etc/console-setup/cached_Uni3-Terminus12x6.psf.gz' '/etc/console-setup/cached_Uni3-Terminus12x6.psf.gz'

After manual deletion second parameter and rebooting font applied as expected

Why need to copy font from "/usr/share/consolefonts" to "/etc/console-setup" when setfont can take it directly from "/usr/share/consolefonts" ?

Why ubuntu not fully moved to systemd and not uses "/etc/vconsole.conf" instead of magic generated scripts like "/etc/console-setup/cached_setup_font.sh" ?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: console-setup-linux 1.178ubuntu2.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-38.41-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Wed Oct 24 16:41:15 2018
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: console-setup
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Vyacheslav (galdralag) wrote on 2018-10-24:

ConsoleSetup.txt Edit (314 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (555 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Keyboard.txt Edit (149 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (127 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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John Zaitseff (zaitseff) wrote on 2019-03-07:

console-setup-1.178ubuntu9-JNZ-1.diff Edit (335 bytes, text/plain)

See bug #1763100 for the solution.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2019-03-07:

The attachment "console-setup-1.178ubuntu9-JNZ-1.diff" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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