Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ?
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 08:48:16PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > 2017-03-22 13:05:13.364493514 +0100 /etc/console-setup/cached_setup_font.sh
> > 2017-03-22 13:05:13.364493514 +0100 /etc/console-setup/cached_setup_keyboard.sh
> > 2017-03-22 13:05:13.364493514 +0100 /etc/console-setup/cached_setup_terminal.sh
> > 2017-03-22 12:54:59.368053266 +0100 /etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz
> > 2017-03-22 12:53:10.459239057 +0100 /etc/default/console-setup
> > 2017-03-07 09:26:01.171789164 +0100 /etc/default/keyboard
>
> It seems something has changed /etc/default/console-setup. If this file
> is changed, then boot scripts of console-setup will recreate the
> cached_* files in /etc.
>
> Do you know what has caused this file to be changed?
That was me, again, because I hoped that setting
# Change to "yes" and setupcon will explain what is being doing
VERBOSE_OUTPUT="yes"
from "no" to "yes" would generate helpful debugging output.
However, I haven't been able to find any :-/
> Something unrelated that might explain the bug is this: maybe this
> system runs X
It does, yes.
> but doesn't have framebuffer on the console?
Oh, it does:
dmseg:
[ 20.377384] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
...
[ 21.054248] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 170x48
[ 21.084983] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
fbset -v -i
Linux Frame Buffer Device Configuration Version 2.1 (23/06/1999)
(C) Copyright 1995-1999 by Geert Uytterhoeven
Opening frame buffer device `/dev/fb0'
Using current video mode from `/dev/fb0'
mode "1366x768"
geometry 1366 768 1366 768 32
timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
accel true
rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0
endmode
Getting further frame buffer information
Frame buffer device information:
Name : inteldrmfb
Address : 0xd0048000
Size : 4227072
Type : PACKED PIXELS
Visual : TRUECOLOR
XPanStep : 1
YPanStep : 1
YWrapStep : 0
LineLength : 5504
Accelerator : No
> BTW, instead of `systemctl restart console-setup.service` you can use
> the command `setupcon`.
OK, I will resort to that in order to minimize what is involved.
Karsten
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