local console yast linedrawing characters garbage after first reboot

English Install/Boot/Login
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I installed a fresh Tumbleweed from the latest ISO download as a “Minimal server selection (text mode)”.
I’m still on the console with root (I’ll switch to non-root after sshd is configured).

On the console with root:

  1. After the install, yast displayed the line-drawing characters fine.
  2. After reboot, it doesn’t.

How can I fix this?

In-between install and reboot, I installed a bunch of patterns:

  • Enhanced Base System
  • Console Tools
  • File Server
  • Network Administration
  • Mail and News Server
  • Web and LAMP Server
  • Internet Gateway
  • DHCP and DNS Server

Finally I did this:

  • zypper dup
  • reboot

Now yast line drawing characters are garbage

During the installation, I choose English as language and timezone Europe/Netherlands

This is how yast looks now (boy I’m glad with http://wiert.me/2013/08/23/esxi-quick-way-of-getting-console-screenshots-in-png-format):

https://copy.com/w2zSGUoWICwGSi2U

This is how it looked before reboot:

https://copy.com/lLKeWRXOluV9H3Mz

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This seems to be a long-standing bug: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2010-04/msg00103.html

Workaround from the bug-report:

“To get a working YaST for now you can call ‘/bin/unicode_start’ on command line
before starting ‘yast’ or call YaST without start script
(’/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base menu ncurses’).”