David Wright composed on 2025-12-15 23:23 (UTC-0600):
> Install: linux-image-5.10.0-37-amd64:amd64 (5.10.247-1, automatic)
> When I boot the new kernel, ttys 2 through 6 are covered by the
> character ยค, CURRENCY SIGN, Hex code point 00A4. (The character
> under the cursor appears as a space, as do the ends of any lines
> of text, though the text itself is not visible.)
> ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
> CHARMAP="UTF-8"
> CODESET="Uni2"
> FONTFACE="Terminus"
> FONTSIZE="12x24"
> VIDEOMODE=
I hadn't noticed before, but similar is happening here on the two Bullseyes I've
upgraded to 5.10.0-37, host gx78b with Radeon R5 230 1002:6779 GPU, and host
gb970
with NVidia GM107GL 10de:13ba. tty[2-6] are initially blank except for a
blinking
cursor 3 or so rows from the top and a dozen or so characters from the left. On
striking <enter>, "g" appears at left edge on the line where the cursor was, and
the cursor moves down one row in same column. With vga=791 and/or
video=1440x900@60 on cmdline, the only difference is there appear no "g"s on
left
ends of rows after one or more line feeds, and after logging in, nothing but
cursor appears no matter what I type.
On both /etc/default/console-setup contains:
ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
CHARMAP="UTF-8"
CODESET="Lat15"
FONTFACE=""
FONTSIZE=""
VIDEOMODE=
On the NVidia host, -36 kernel had never been installed, so I installed and
booted
it, and it is working as expected.
# ls -gG /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-3*
-rw-r--r-- 1 8865952 Mar 21 2025 /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-34-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 7307222 Dec 16 07:48 /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-36-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 7307439 Dec 12 07:44 /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-37-amd64
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