Bug#548354: console-setup: Intermittent boot problems

[Adam Trickett <adam@iredale.net>]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.45
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


This may not be critical and it may not be the cause of the problem, but since I upgraded
xorg, and console-setup was installed I'm having persisteng boot problems. Sometimes the
boot sequence stops and a power cycle is required, sometimes it stops and a Ctrl-C will
break it. Splashy is also bust.

This may be a partial duplicate of bugs #510211.

Basically on boot Splahy starts, the progress bar fails to move and then I'm dumped
back on a traditional console. Most of the time it continues to boot until the
setting up console fonts line. If I'm lucky I can Ctrl-C out of it and it's okay,
otherwise it's reset, reboot, fsck and reboot again. It's very annoying. The system
will clean boot about one time in 5.

I can't remove console-setup without remove xorg, which I'd rather not remove.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-terminus              4.28-1     Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.27     Debian configuration management sy
ii  xkb-data                      1.6-1      X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii  console-tools              1:0.2.3dbs-66 Linux console and font utilities

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales                       2.9-25     GNU C Library: National Language (
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

-- debconf information:
* console-setup/variant: United Kingdom
  console-setup/unsupported_options: true
* console-setup/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
  console-setup/modelcode: pc105
  console-setup/use_system_font:
  console-setup/fontsize: 16
  console-setup/unsupported_layout: true
  console-setup/layoutcode: gb
  console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
* console-setup/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
  console-setup/codeset: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
  console-setup/toggle: No toggling
* console-setup/fontface: Terminus
  console-setup/fontsize-text: 16
* console-setup/compose: No compose key
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
  console-setup/other:
  console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
  console-setup/unsupported_config_layout: true
  console-setup/charmap: ISO-8859-1
  console-setup/optionscode:
  console-setup/unsupported_config_options: true
  console-setup/layout:
  console-setup/variantcode:
* console-setup/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
* console-setup/fontsize-fb: 16