Console Font Problem

English Install/Boot/Login
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Hi Everybody.
I want to use terminus fonts for my console & tty’s (ctrl+alt+f n). i ve installed terminus package from repo. i could use them with the ‘setfont’ command,but i want it permanently.
I ve edited /etc/sysconfig/etc and changed the console font to terminus.
but when restart the system it doesn’t apply:(
Any solutions?

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What happens if you edit the file /etc/sysconfig/console as root and change the following line to the font you want to use?:

CONSOLE_FONT="lat9w-16.psfu"

Then restart and see what you get? You can edit any system file as root using this bash script:

SYSEdit - System File Editor - Version 1.50 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

You can edit any system file from Dolphin (or other file manager) as a normal user by selecting Open With fewrup when you install this bash script:

fewrup - File Editor With Root or User Permissions - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,

3

Thanks dude,but I think you dont read my post completely, i do what you say before your post but make a mistake in post, i 've edited /etc/sysconfig/console file;)
but it won’t apply!:frowning:

4

Anybody ,helllllllllllp me please:(

5

Test whether it works without plymouth (plymouth.enable=0 on kernel command line).

6

I just tried and if I press ESC when the bootsplash appears to get to the messages it works, otherwise not.

So I guess plymouth.enable=0 should help, or splash=verbose or splash=none, but I haven’t tried that…

7

Looks like this is the same as Access Denied

8

So the instructions seem to be, save the following text file as root for openSUSE 12.2 and 12.3 (I see /lib to /usr/lib for factory in future?):

/lib/mkinitrd/scripts/setup-vconsole.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
#%stage: setup
#%depends: start
#

function add_to_include()
{
    local t gz
    case $1 in
    *.gz )
        gz="gzip -cd"
    ;;
    * )
        gz=cat
    ;;
    esac
    t=$($gz $1 | grep '^include' | awk '{print $2}' | tr -d \")
    [ "$t" ] && includes=( ${includes[@]} $t )
}

mkdir -p $tmp_mnt/etc/sysconfig

if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/console ]; then
    . /etc/sysconfig/console
    cp -p /etc/sysconfig/console $tmp_mnt/etc/sysconfig
fi

if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/keyboard ]; then
    . /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
    cp -p /etc/sysconfig/keyboard $tmp_mnt/etc/sysconfig
fi

includes=()
for f in $COMPOSETABLE; do
    [ "$f" = "clear" ] && continue
    for i in $(find /usr/share/kbd -name compose.$f -o -name $f.inc -o -name compose.$f.gz); do
    echo $i | cpio -pmdu --quiet $tmp_mnt
    add_to_include $i
    done
done

for f in $KEYTABLE; do
    for i in $(find /usr/share/kbd -name $f -o -name $f.inc -o -name $f.gz ); do
    echo $i | cpio -pmdu --quiet $tmp_mnt
    add_to_include $i
    done
done

while true; do
    list=( ${includes[@]} )
    includes=()
    [ ${#list
[li]} -eq 0 ] && break[/li]    for l in ${list[@]}; do
    for i in $(find /usr/share/kbd -name $l -o -name $l.inc -o -name $l.gz); do
        echo $i | cpio -pmdu --quiet $tmp_mnt
        add_to_include $i
    done
    done
done

for f in $CONSOLE_FONT $CONSOLE_SCREENMAP $CONSOLE_UNICODEMAP; do
    [ "$f" = "none" ] && continue
    find /usr/share/kbd -name $f -o -name $f.gz | cpio -pmdu --quiet $tmp_mnt
done

mkdir -p $tmp_mnt/lib/systemd
cp -p /lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup $tmp_mnt/lib/systemd

[ -f /etc/sysconfig/language ] && . /etc/sysconfig/language
vconsole_ctype=$RC_LC_ALL
[ "$vconsole_ctype" ] || vconsole_ctype=$RC_LC_CTYPE
[ "$vconsole_ctype" ] || vconsole_ctype=$RC_LANG
save_var vconsole_ctype

language=${vconsole_ctype%.*}
codeset=${vconsole_ctype#*.}

if [ -n "$vconsole_ctype" -a -d /usr/lib/$vconsole_ctype ]; then
    find /usr/lib/locale/$vconsole_ctype | cpio -pmdu --quiet $tmp_mnt
elif [ -n "$language" -a "$codeset" = UTF-8 ]; then
    d=/usr/lib/locale/$language.utf8
    [ -d $d ] && find $d | cpio -pmdu --quiet $tmp_mnt
fi

save_var use_vconsole 1

true

Then run this to make it executable:

sudo chmod +x /lib/mkinitrd/scripts/setup-vconsole.sh

And then this to upgrade the Initrd image:

sudo /sbin/mkinitrd  -f vconsole

Thank You,

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Thank you guys all. I didn’t know it’s a bug.
It solved by the instruction in the https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=780516.
I have tumbleweed repos,so get the factory patch (boot-vscreen & setup-vscreen) and so coooool:D

10

I reup this old thread to ask how to solve the same problem with opensuse 13.1: systemd doesn’t digest that script properly.

Any ideas?

11

What script are you talking about and what "systemd doesn’t digest’ means?

12

The one linked above by jdmcdaniel3.

If I copy it into /lib/mkinitrd/scripts, sudo /sbin/mkinitrd -f vconsole complains about


[WARNING] Feature "vconsole" not found. A typo?
cp: cannot stat ‘/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup’: No such file or directory
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On 13.1 that file is located in /usr/lib/systemd/ instead of /lib/systemd/, so change that accordingly in the script:

mkdir -p $tmp_mnt/usr/lib/systemd
cp -p /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup $tmp_mnt/usr/lib/systemd
14

Thanks for your reply.
Unfortunately mkinitrd still complains:\


[WARNING] Feature "vconsole" not found. A typo?
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In addition to setup-* script you also need boot-* script. Please see bug referred to in this thread.

16

Thanks, it works now.

Will I have to manually run mkinitrd -f vconsole every time I update the kernel?
If so, is there a way to make it a default feature?

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You can add vconsole to ADDITIONAL_FEATURES in /etc/sysconfig/kernel (variable is not documented there).

18

Works a charm now, thanks a lot!:good:

19

Reupping the thread again: are there changes to be made for 13.2 ?

Regards

20

No idea. Try and tell us? :slight_smile: