[Bug 433897] Re: Console/VT font is (randomly) not set (sometimes) on some machines. Stuck with the default VGA BIOS font.

[Daniel van Vugt]

** Summary changed:

- at boot, the font is not set by the upstart job
+ Console/VT font is (randomly) not set (sometimes) on some machines. Stuck with the default VGA BIOS font.

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Title:
  Console/VT font is (randomly) not set (sometimes) on some machines.
  Stuck with the default VGA BIOS font.

Status in “console-setup” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “console-setup” source package in Precise:
  Confirmed
Status in “console-setup” source package in Quantal:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  [Fix]

  [Test Case]

  [Regression Potential]

  [Original Report]
  Since the Karmic transition away from init.d scripts to upstart services has started, the font is no longer set at bootup. This results in unreadable user prompts, whenever applications output non-ascii characters to screen and it also affects graphic box characters used by ncurses, such as for debconf dialogs.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Sep 21 12:51:40 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: console-setup 1.34ubuntu2
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=fi_FI.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
  SourcePackage: console-setup
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686

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