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Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup



I have a great AmigaONE computer with DebianPPC Sid (unstable) version.
Today I have installed, with apt-get all latest updates, but, when the
computer reset and inizialize the system, it lockup at this point:


Setting Up General Console Font

How I can restore my system and correct this error?


 Depends what resources you've got. I'm not over-familiar with the way
the boot scripts are organised, but it sounds like it's running
something here that you need to comment out.


$ cd /etc/init.d
$ grep -i font *
[...]
console-screen.sh:      echo -n "Setting up general console font..."
[...]
That looks like the script you'll have to look into. Maybe it tries to set a font defined in /etc/console-tools/config that is not supported/available. 
But first make backups of all the files you change.


 If you've got another linux installation on it, you could boot that,
mount the debian root filesystem, and edit the script (note this will
probably force an fsck on the next debian boot, because the system time
is not set correctly when the rootfs is mounted.  At a guess, rename the
symlink to the script to load the font, so that it is not found, e.g. by
adding '.bak' to the end of the name.

 If you haven't got another bootable linux system on it, you could use
another machine to download my bzip2'd rescue cd image and burn it to a
CD, then boot with that, mount the debian rootfs, and edit the script(s)
with vi - or use it to load backups from CD or via scp if you have them.
It's a 14MB download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zarniwhoop - get
versiion 005, not 003.

 Or, wait to see if somebody else here has an easier way.


;-)
I would say you just boot your current system with the parameter 'init=/bin/bash', then do an fsck of the root fs, remount the root parition read-write and try to fix it. 

     -Thomas
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