Bug#389963: [Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#389963: console-setup: Screen size is wrong

[Thue Janus Kristensen]

On 10/2/06, Anton Zinoviev <anton at lml.bas.bg> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 10:37:46PM +0200, Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
> > >
> > >and then send to me the contents of the files /tmp/locale.out and
> > >/etc/default/console-setup?
> >
> > These are attached.
>
> Acording to locale.out your active locale is en_US.UTF-8.  The next
> thing we must ensure is that this locale is generated in your system.
> Open the file /etc/locale.gen and make sure there are lines for all
> locales you may want to use.  For example
>
> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> en_US       ISO-8859-1
> en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8
> en_DK       ISO-8859-1
> da_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8
> da_DK       ISO-8859-1
>
> Then run as root the command "locale-gen".

I does look right, and includes en_US.UTF-8. I have just rerun
locale.gen, and the bug still occurs.

Anyway, since the console does display the right characters once I
have run setupcon then it indicates that the locale does exist.

> > I get the same wrong characters whether I type them or cat them from
> > /tmp/danishtest
>
> This means the keyboard setup is OK.
>
> > To be precise, the characters actually written to screen are
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C (lowercase)
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%B0
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma (lowercase)
>
> This happens when the kernel thinks the font has ISO-8859-1 encoding
> but instead it is with CP437.  I don't know what might cause this
> because the font in your setup of console-setup has 512 symbols and
> because of that it is clearly not ISO-8859-1 nor CP437.
>
> Do you have installed some other package that tries to set the console?

kbd does have the init-script /etc/init.d/console-screen.kbd.sh ,
which is run on start. But kbd is recommended by console-setup, and
required by console-common, and so should not conflict with
console-setup?

> In order to find out when the font brokes or whether it is loaded
> properly at all you may want to use dpkg-reconfigure in order to
> change the font to some that is easily distinguished from the boot
> font.  For example Fixed with size 13 (you will need to change the
> codeset from Uni1 to Lat15).  Then try to see during the boot proces
> whether the font of console-setup loades (the corresponding message
> should be "Setting up console font and keymap").  Then try to see if
> this font remains unchanged until X starts.  Return to the console
> immediately and see if the font is already broken.  If not, perhaps
> the font brokes when you log in?  In this case the problem is caused
> by some of your startup scripts (~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile,
> ~/.bashrc, etc.).

The font does load during boot.

I have a very innocent .zshrc and /etc/zsh/, nothing which should
cause these kinds of problems. Besides, the problems already exist on
the login promt, before any shell startup scripts are run.

> > I tried the tests in a console, after X started and I switched to the
> > console. Please say if I should try them inside a boot which does not
> > start X.
>
> Perhaps not.  I am almost sure the problem will remain with a boot
> which does not start X, but who knows...
>
> Anton Zinoviev

As I can see the font is correct until X starts I assume this is the case.

Regards, Thue