Comment 1 for bug 93338

Hi,
I cant reproduce this here.
/etc/init.d/console-setup contains here (on feisty) :

    start|force-reload|restart|reload)
        if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && ....
            ...
        elif ! run_by_init; then
            log_action_begin_msg "Saving console font and keymap for next boot"
            if setupcon --save-only; then
                log_action_end_msg 0
            else
                log_action_end_msg $?
            fi
        fi

so it does only some saving even with apt-get --reinstall .
Do you have a modified version of that file ?

Or not exported/empty DISPLAY ?
export|grep DISPLAY
declare -x DISPLAY=":0.0"