[Bug 1565542] Re: init scripts don't set console fonts

[Eugene Nuke]

Xenial also contain this bug. I did clean install xenial desktop amd64
in the VirtualBox. After installation I have switched to the text
console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and I've got boxes instead cyrillic fonts.

cat /etc/default/console-setup:
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# CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON

# Consult the console-setup(5) manual page.

ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"

CHARMAP="UTF-8"

CODESET="guess"
FONTFACE="Fixed"
FONTSIZE="8x16"

VIDEOMODE=

# The following is an example how to use a braille font
# FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf'
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And again we have CODESET="guess" and FONTSIZE="8x16"

cat /lib/udev/console-setup-tty:
I have cut other code and keep only setup_font ()
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setup_font () {
    # Set the font and ACM.  setfont will silently do nothing for a console
    # in graphics mode.
    SETFONT_ARGS=
    if [ "$FONT" ]; then
	FONT="/etc/console-setup/${FONT##*/}"
	FONT="${FONT%.gz}"
    else
	FONT="/etc/console-setup/$CODESET-$FONTFACE$FONTSIZE.psf"
    fi
    if [ -f "$FONT" ]; then
	SETFONT_ARGS="${SETFONT_ARGS:+$SETFONT_ARGS }$FONT"
    fi
    if [ "$ACM" ]; then
	ACM="/etc/console-setup/${ACM##*/}"
	ACM="${ACM%.gz}"
    else
	ACM="/etc/console-setup/$CHARMAP.acm"
    fi
    if [ -f "$ACM" ]; then
	SETFONT_ARGS="${SETFONT_ARGS:+$SETFONT_ARGS }-m $ACM"
    fi
    if [ "$SETFONT_ARGS" ]; then
	setfont -C "$1" $SETFONT_ARGS
    fi
}
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In our case FONT will be "/etc/console-setup/guess-Fixed8x16.psf"

But we have
ls /etc/console-setup/
/etc/console-setup/Uni2-Fixed16.psf.gz

So FONT must be "/etc/console-setup/Uni2-Fixed16.psf" or even "/etc/console-setup/Uni2-Fixed16.psf.gz",
because the next check
    if [ -f "$FONT" ]; then
will fail with an uncompressed file.

The /bin/setupcon script has code for CODESET="guess" and FONTSIZE="8x16", but
 /lib/udev/console-setup-tty
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/console_setup
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/console_setup
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/panic/console_setup
have not

apt-cache policy keyboard-configuration
keyboard-configuration:
  Installed: 1.108ubuntu13
  Candidate: 1.108ubuntu13


** Tags added: xenial

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Title:
  init scripts don't set console fonts

Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  1) lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 15.10
  Release:	15.10

  2) apt-cache policy keyboard-configuration
  keyboard-configuration:
    Installed: 1.108ubuntu9
    Candidate: 1.108ubuntu9
    Version table:
   *** 1.108ubuntu9 0
          500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  3) I expected to have cyrillic font for consoles (/dev/tty[1-6]) after
  sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
  and reboot

  4) I have cyrrilic font until I reboot. After reboot I have black boxes instead cyrillic chars.
  If I do:
  setfont /etc/console-setup/Uni2-TerminusBold16.psf.gz
  then I have cyrrilic font in current console 

  I found that these scripts
  /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/console_setup
  /lib/udev/console-setup-tty
  cannot properly set console fonts.
  They don't recognize option CODESET="guess" and FONTSIZE="*x*" and check if exist only *.psf file, but we have *.psf.gz

  I get part of code from /bin/setupcon and paste it in
  /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/console_setup
  /lib/udev/console-setup-tty
  and add extra test for psf.gz and acm.gz files

  The attachment contain original scripts, fixed scripts and patches.

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