Bug#908789: console-setup: Doesn't boot up with my large font specified in /etc/default/console-setup

[David Lawyer <davylawyer1@gmail.com>]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.185
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I copied linux from a 20-yr old disk to a brand new one 100 times as large
in GB.  But what I copied is only 2-3 years old so I updated it using
aptitude and have several problems, one of which I'll describe here.  The
old disk used sysvinit and the large font got installed ok on boot.  But
now I use systemd and get only a tiny font at login. Once logged in as
root I can type "setupcon" and all is Ok.  With journalctl I checked what
console-setup.service did at boot.  It ran twice. one sec. apart and
Starting and Started console font and keymap. But no change in fonts.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.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     1.185
ii  debconf                 1.5.69
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.185
ii  xkb-data                2.23.1-1

console-setup recommends no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales   2.27-6
ii  lsb-base  9.20170808

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.5.69
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.07-3+b3

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers     1.54
ii  initscripts             2.88dsf-59.10
ii  kbd                     2.0.4-4
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.185

console-setup-linux suggests no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
ii  console-common        0.7.90
ii  console-data          2:1.12-6
pn  console-tools         <none>
pn  gnome-control-center  <none>
ii  kbd                   2.0.4-4
ii  systemd               239-8

-- debconf information:
* keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 104-key PC
  keyboard-configuration/optionscode: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,lv3:rwin_switch_latch,grp:lwin_toggle,me:you
* keyboard-configuration/variant: English (US)
  keyboard-configuration/layout:
  console-setup/codesetcode: Uni3
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
  console-setup/use_system_font:
* keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
  keyboard-configuration/other:
  console-setup/guess_font:
* console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 16x32 (framebuffer only)
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
  keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: us,us
  keyboard-configuration/toggle: Left Logo key
  keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc104
  console-setup/framebuffer_only:
* console-setup/fontface47: Terminus
  keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
* keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
  keyboard-configuration/variantcode: basic,rus
  console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
* console-setup/codeset47: . Combined - Latin; Slavic and non-Slavic Cyrillic
  console-setup/fontsize: 16x32
  console-setup/fontsize-text47: 16x32 (framebuffer only)
  keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: us
* console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
* keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
  keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
* keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: true