FS#19079 - Consolefont mkinitcpio hook does not allow non-unicode fonts

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Mark (voidzero) - Tuesday, 13 April 2010, 16:03 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 30 April 2010, 17:20 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
The consolefont mkinitcpio hook only has support for unicode fonts, i.e. fonts that end with .psfu.gz. However, a certain uniformity between the initrd boot and rest of the boot process must be allowed. When a user sets CONSOLEFONT in rc.conf (I for example have it set to ter-v12n because this is a nice fonts that allows more characters on the screen) the text that came before setfont was executed in rc.sysinit, disappears. This means that possible errors and other messages cannot be seen after setfont has been executed. Therefore the only viable solution, next to removing any arbitrary CONSOLEFONT entry is to allow both unicode and non-unicode fonts from the consolefont mkinitcpio hook.
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Friday, 30 April 2010, 17:20 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#19109 
Comment by Mark (voidzero) - Tuesday, 13 April 2010, 16:04 GMT
Apologies for filing this in the wrong category. Accidentally I pressed the add button too soon.
Comment by Karol Błażewicz (karol) - Friday, 30 April 2010, 05:01 GMT
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19109
Comment by Mark (voidzero) - Friday, 30 April 2010, 07:38 GMT
Meh. Sorry. Bug  FS#19109  is a duplicate of this bug, not the other way around. :)

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