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[SOLVED] Consolefont in error

Hi, after the upgrade of last week, I've new upgrades to do yet, this error messages (rc.log) appear during the startup:
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consolefont       |setfont: ERROR kdfontop.c:183 put_font_kdfontop: Unable to load such font with such kernel version

This is the kernel version that I'm using:
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Linux tuxedoaura 6.3.9-zen1-1-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:38:08 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux


Do you have any idea about how to remove it?. I installed the dedicated fonts xorg-fonts-100dpi/75dpi (I did it in the past), but nothing happen.

Thank you.

Re: Consolefont in error

Reply #2 –
nous: all perfect, deleted and added consolefont in a different level.

The question is: why it appeared with the last update and never before? Surely something is changed, but what?  :)

Re: [SOLVED] Consolefont in error

Reply #4 –
Nous, I gave you a first resolution without a complete test of the situation and the error is yet present with the same message.

Now consolefont is in the default mode, as you can see below:

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$ rc-status
Runlevel: default
 dbus                                                                                                [  started 00:28:53 (0) ]
 syslog-ng                                                                                           [  started 00:28:52 (0) ]
 acpid                                                                                               [  started 00:28:52 (0) ]
 bluetoothd                                                                                          [  started 00:28:52 (0) ]
 cronie                                                                                              [  started 00:28:52 (0) ]
 NetworkManager                                                                                                  [  started  ]
 cupsd                                                                                               [  started 00:28:51 (0) ]
 consolefont                                                                                                     [  stopped  ]
 netmount                                                                                                        [  started  ]
 sddm                                                                                                [  started 00:28:51 (0) ]
 piavpn                                                                                                          [  started  ]
 smb                                                                                                             [  started  ]
 chrony                                                                                                          [  started  ]
 local                                                                                                           [  started  ]
 agetty.tty1                                                                                         [  started 00:28:50 (0) ]
 agetty.tty2                                                                                         [  started 00:28:50 (0) ]
 agetty.tty3                                                                                         [  started 00:28:50 (0) ]
 agetty.tty4                                                                                         [  started 00:28:50 (0) ]
 agetty.tty5                                                                                         [  started 00:28:50 (0) ]
 agetty.tty6                                                                                         [  started 00:28:50 (0) ]
Dynamic Runlevel: hotplugged
Dynamic Runlevel: needed/wanted
 avahi-daemon                                                                                        [  started 00:28:51 (0) ]
Dynamic Runlevel: manual
 openrc-settingsd                                                                                                [  started  ]

If I start the consolefont process manually (rc-service consolefont start) all is right, but no way that it start automatically. I'm using the zen version of the kernel, I'll retry with another version.
The question is that, for the first time, sometime I've to restart the boot of the system cause it go lock.

Have I to install a specific font?

Thank you.

Re: [SOLVED] Consolefont in error

Reply #5 –
What version of the "kbd" package are you using? The problem with the scrambled messages related to the kbd-2.6.0-1 version. The recent upgrade to kbd-2.6.1-1 fixed that issue. If you are using the latest version, then what is the font you are trying to set?

Re: [SOLVED] Consolefont in error

Reply #6 –
#######: the kbd is the last 2.6.1.1, the font used is default8x16 in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts and is defined in /etc/conf.d/consolefonts.

Almost all correct, apparently cause there is the error :-)

Re: [SOLVED] Consolefont in error

Reply #7 –
It seems this is a different bug which is being worked on now:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/78958
https://github.com/legionus/kbd/issues/99

But if you set the font by disabling the consolefont service and use /etc/vconsole.conf instead then run mkinitcpio -P after ensuring your mkinitcpio.conf has the recently added consolefont hook it seems to work without an error message.
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,5585.msg35502.html#msg35502

Re: [SOLVED] Consolefont in error

Reply #8 –
#######: thanks for your answers and forgive me for the delay to answer you, but I was on the lake, where I live, with a sail boat and without all the modern stuffs, like smartphone, computers, etc...
If you'll decide to take a vacation in Italy, send me a message and you'll be my guest for a sail tour in one of the more charming lake of Italy: Lake of Garda.

Despite the error and after reading your answer and the github, I've decided to wait the correction of the error; I can survive with it without any great problems :-)

Thank you.

Frank

Re: [SOLVED] Consolefont in error

Reply #9 –
Thank you for the invitation, that is most kind and quite unprecedented!  ;D  I think it's very unlikely I will be in Italy in the forseeeable future to take you up on the offer but I shall keep it in mind nonetheless. That is indeed internationally renowned to be one of the finest areas,  so it's good you can get out to enjoy it rather than spending all your time dealing with console fonts. Although it will be a good thing to get the consolefont service working correctly as it probably still has some use cases where it is preferable, the vconsole.conf approach seems to give a smoother boot display for me, as the font is applied from the outset and there is no screen redraw part way through.