Comment 2 for bug 657551

Looks like the problem is in upstart config for console setup:
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$ cat /etc/init/console-setup.conf
# console-setup - set console keymap
#
# Set the console keyboard as early as possible so that the administrator
# can interact with the system during file system checks. The keymap may be
# set on any virtual console as long as it isn't in raw mode; loadkeys will
# go and look for one such, and fail if it can't find one.

description "set console keymap and font"

start on (virtual-filesystems
          or starting rcS
          or starting mountall-shell)

task

exec loadkeys /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz
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And I'd guess that it should call /bin/setupcon (from console-setup package) which loads both - keys and font.
Am I wrong?