Ubuntu
console-setup package

Recovery mode is displayed unreadable

Bug #1449292 reported by Gannet
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console-setup (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

After upgrading to 15.04 I found my Recovery mode is displayed in black boxes and is completely not readable. I should run setupcon each time I'm entering recovery mode to make Cyrillic letters readable. All Latin is ok. I have installed 3 different linux kernels and when I'm booting to one of them in recovery all is ok but in case of two others - black squares instead of Cyrillic. I don't know what package responds for this issue but I'm thinking this is a bug.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in friendly-recovery (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Gannet (ken20001)
affects: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu) → console-setup (Ubuntu)
Changed in console-setup (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → New
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Gannet (ken20001) wrote :

I tried dpkg-reconfigure console-setup and it offers font 16x8, but there is no 16x8 for VGA, there is only 16 in /etc/console-setup:
Uni2-VGA16.psf.gz
Also, for some unknown reason, it it was not extracted from archive and I should do it by hand.

So, at last, I found the following solution:

in /etc/default/console-setup changed:
FONTSIZE="16x8" to FONTSIZE="16"

setupcon --save

gunzip -k /etc/console-setup/Uni2-VGA16.psf.gz

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Gannet (ken20001) wrote :

I checked Ubuntu Server 15.04 also and found that problem not only in recovery but I should run setupcon after each reboot to get Cyrillic letters readable. And for some reason 'setupcon --save' not saves it to feature reboots.

summary: - Recovery mode is displayed in unreadable font
+ Recovery mode is displayed unreadable
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in console-setup (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Gannet (ken20001) wrote :

Ubuntu Server 15.10 also affected by this bug.

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Gannet (ken20001) wrote :

Semi report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/609775

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Gannet (ken20001) wrote :

Semi report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/433897

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