On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 01:52:29PM +0000, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Thu 10 Dec 2015 at 03:47:24 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > Am 10.12.2015 um 00:55 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > > > Eric Cooper, on Thu 19 Nov 2015 13:31:57 -0500, wrote: > > >> While booting, it looks like the font switches from VGA to Terminus > > >> during the boot messages. But then the screen is cleared and the > > >> getty login prompts are back in VGA. If I run "setupcon" manually, it > > >> changes to Terminus. > > > > > > So it seems like something is resetting the font back to VGA (and it's > > > not console-setup, which loads Terminus). > > > > > > systemd people, do you have any idea? This has started happening with > > > the switch to systemd. > > > > From a cursory look, it doesn't seem to be caused by systemd itself but > > it's a race condition and the way console-setup works. And the timing > > under systemd might simply the different then under sysvinit (it's > > usually faster). > > > > When Karsten added the dependency on udev settle, it probably just > > changed the timing (by delaying it a little) so made it less likely to > > happen. > > > > It might be, that loading the KMS module resets the font. > > So maybe console-setup should run when hardware shows up. > > This is a shot in the dark, but can you try and create the following > > udev rules file: > > > > $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/90-setupcon.rules > > ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="vtconsole", KERNEL=="vtcon*", > > RUN+="/bin/setupcon" > > This file does it for me up to now. After about 10 reboots the font is > not being reset back to VGA.
Yes, this solves the problem for my system too. Please consider adding this to the console-setup package. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
