Ubuntu
kvm package

fonts don't match chars used in d-i

Bug #357630 reported by Loïc Minier on 2009-04-08

4

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	debian-installer (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
	kvm (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi

NB: This might be a bug with the Ubuntu ISOs rather than kvm.

When installing Ubuntu in kvm, in my case using the jaunty lpia alternate install CD (.iso), I see various VGA chars using the wrong glyphs.

I think this is due to the default font used in the kvm VGA adapter, but it might be a font loaded by the installer, not sure.

This is problematic for two things:
- the dialogs look ugly
- when prompted to detect keyboard layout, you can chose to type keys appearing on they keyboard, except that d-i tells me to type keys with unreadable glyphs, and hence I can't hit the correct key....

will attach screenshot.

I'm running kvm with:
qemu-img create -f raw hda.img 8G
kvm -hda hda.img -cdrom *iso -boot d -m 512

Bye

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote on 2009-04-08:

#1

screenshot of d-i in kvm Edit (4.9 KiB, image/png)

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote on 2009-04-15:

#2

Thanks for the report, Loic. That does look ugly. I'm going to mark this against debian-installer too, in case Colin has any words of wisdom for solving this.

:-Dustin

Changed in kvm (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote on 2009-04-15:

#3

I'm leaving it as 'New', in that I'm not seeing this on my end. I might have something to do with a Non-English locale or character map, perhaps? (Seems like a long shot)...

:-Dustin

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2009-04-16:

#4

I've never seen this before either; I do most of my d-i testing in kvm ...

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote on 2009-05-13:

#5

Screenshot of broken char in karmic alternate lpia ISO (converted to USB) Edit (449.2 KiB, image/jpeg)

I'm seeing missing glyph for some chars on real devices, like on the attached screenshot.

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote on 2009-05-13:

#6

Screenshot of correct char in jaunty alternate amd64 ISO under KVM Edit (6.1 KiB, image/png)

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote on 2009-05-13:

#7

I believe lpia lacks some fonts data, or a kernel config, or something, but have no clue which.

Changed in kvm (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote on 2009-09-29:

#8

Same on armel+dove alternates now

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote on 2009-09-29:

#9

So this is easy to reproduce with e.g. the amd64 netboot: they work by default with "kvm -kernel linux -initrd initrd.gz" but expose the same issue if I pass "-append debian-installer/framebuffer=false"

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Tobin Davis (gruemaster) wrote on 2012-01-30:

#10

I haven't seen this issue in a while so I am marking it as "Fix Released". I have not seen this on any of the images I test with the alternate installer or net installer.

Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Released

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