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

[John Zaitseff]

Ubuntu Cosmic (18.10) still fails to load certain fonts at boot.  The
problem is that setupcon has a bug in it that attempts to load the font
TWICE, which fails for certain types of fonts.  The attached patch fixes
this issue.

** Patch added: "Fix font loading issue on Ubuntu Cosmic"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/433897/+attachment/5244531/+files/console-setup-1.178ubuntu9-JNZ-1.diff

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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:
  New
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:
  Won't Fix

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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