Bug#900058: console-setup: Not keeping font over a reboot

[Chris Bannister <cbannister48@gmail.com>]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.164
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
I rebooted the computer.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
Not sure what is meant by this question, but if I set the font
via dpkg-reconfigure console-setup then reboot the computer the
font settings are not kept and I have to do another dpkg-reconfigure
to get it back.

Please note that before filing this report I had already done a dpkg-reconfigure console-setup.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-setup-linux     1.164
ii  debconf                 1.5.61
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.164
ii  xkb-data                2.19-1+deb9u1

console-setup recommends no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales   2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  lsb-base  9.20161125

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.5.61
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.07-3+b1

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers     1.48
ii  initscripts             2.88dsf-59.9
ii  kbd                     2.0.3-2+b1
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.164

console-setup-linux suggests no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
ii  console-common        0.7.89
ii  console-data          2:1.12-5
pn  console-tools         <none>
pn  gnome-control-center  <none>
ii  kbd                   2.0.3-2+b1
ii  systemd               232-25+deb9u2

-- debconf information:
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
* console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
  keyboard-configuration/optionscode: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
  keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
* console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
* keyboard-configuration/variant: English (US)
* console-setup/codeset47: Guess optimal character set
  console-setup/fontsize: 8x16
  keyboard-configuration/modelcode: acer_laptop
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
  console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
  keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
  console-setup/codesetcode: guess
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
  console-setup/use_system_font:
  console-setup/guess_font:
  keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: us
* keyboard-configuration/model: Acer Laptop
* console-setup/fontface47: TerminusBold
* keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
* keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: true
  console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
  keyboard-configuration/variantcode:
  keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
  keyboard-configuration/layout:
  console-setup/framebuffer_only:
  keyboard-configuration/other:
  keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: us