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