Bug 36016

Summary:	systemd-vconsole-setup does not read /etc/vconsole.conf when running in VM
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Dennis Wronka <dennis.wronka>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lennart>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Proposed patch to enable loading of /etc/vconsole.conf when running in VM

Description Dennis Wronka 2011-04-05 20:49:26 UTC

Created attachment 45334 [details] [review]
Proposed patch to enable loading of /etc/vconsole.conf when running in VM

I have noticed that when starting the system in a virtual machine (in my case KVM), systemd-vconsole-setup tries to load the default font specified at build time.
Looking through the code I have found that r is set to EXIT_FAILURE, which is 1. As the kernel command line only is checked when not running in a VM this will effectively disable loading /etc/vconsole.conf

Setting r to 0, as in locale-setup.c, fixes the problem. As far as I can see no other problems are introduced by this.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2011-04-06 10:37:25 UTC

Urks, this is actually a different bug: we actually want to ignore the cmdline only in containers, not in all virtualization. Basically detect_virtualization() needed to be replaced by detect_container(). Which I did now in git.

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