console font is not loaded at startup

[kolya]

Binary package hint: console-setup

When system is started up is seems that console font is not loaded. The problem seems to occur at least since 10.10.
The cause of the problem is lack of FRAMEBUFFER variable being setup in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf .
console-setup (or some other package - do not really know) should probably create a file in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d which contains: 'FRAMEBUFFER=y'

Adding 'FRAMEBUFFER=y' to '/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf ' fixes the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: console-setup 1.57ubuntu20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 2 00:26:50 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru_RU:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: console-setup
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (2 days ago)

[kolya (mar-kolya)]

This also might be the root cause of previously reported bug: 657551

[damon raphael (w7md)]

I have noted the same bug on newly installed version 11.04 i386 32 bit on a Thinkpad T61P. Executing: sudo setupcon from a terminal successfully reads the config file and invokes my desired change to a large font for the 1920 x 1200 display.

[Dave Ahlswede (mightyquinn)]

I have the same problem on Natty, with the caveat that adding FRAMEBUFFER=y to /etc/initramfs/initramfs.conf (and subsequently running update-initramfs -u -k all) does not seem to fix the problem. Manually running setupcon does fix it.

[Bernard Banko (beernarrd)]

putting setupcon in the boot process should solve the problem, i think. (don't ask me how to do it)