Bug 88373

Summary:	systemd-vconsole-setup does not set font map correctly in QEMU guests
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Daniel Milewski <niitotantei>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	QEMU guest screenshot vconsole.conf file

Description Daniel Milewski 2015-01-13 15:35:31 UTC

After upgrade to systemd 218 in QEMU guest running Parabola I saw that systemd-vconsole-setup no longer sets up the font map correctly. It works ok for the host machine running the same distro and systemd version though.

When I press backspace or use some keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+R I can see non-printable characters appearing on the screen. I can temporarily fix this by running setfont -m 8859-2, however it'll only work till next reboot or restart of the systemd-vconsole-setup.service.

Comment 1 Daniel Milewski 2015-01-13 15:39:22 UTC

Created attachment 112172 [details]
QEMU guest screenshot

Comment 2 Daniel Milewski 2015-01-13 15:40:15 UTC

Created attachment 112173 [details]
vconsole.conf file

Comment 3 Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2015-01-22 04:22:11 UTC

What systemd rpm version (on the host and in the initramfs)?

Comment 4 Daniel Milewski 2015-01-22 13:32:10 UTC

On both host and guest machines I have:

    libsystemd 218-1
    systemd 218-1
    systemd-sysvcompat 218-1

Parabola does not use RPM. It uses a custom package format so packages are built from sources. You can take a look at the package description file[1].

I couldn't find any systemd file in the initramfs other than `systemd-udevd` binary (which is apparently copied from the system when image is built so the version numbers are identical). In initramfs `/bin/init` is symlinked to `busybox`.

[1] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/systemd

Comment 5 Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2015-01-22 13:58:47 UTC

(In reply to Daniel Milewski from comment #4)
> On both host and guest machines I have:
> 
>     libsystemd 218-1
>     systemd 218-1
>     systemd-sysvcompat 218-1
There have been fixes after 218 was released to the console setup. You should test with git or wait for 219.

> Parabola does not use RPM. It uses a custom package format so packages are
> built from sources. You can take a look at the package description file[1].
OK. Then this might be more suitable for the Parabola bug tracker. Those things are very much dependent on configuration that is usually done through the distribution.

> I couldn't find any systemd file in the initramfs other than `systemd-udevd`
> binary (which is apparently copied from the system when image is built so
> the version numbers are identical). In initramfs `/bin/init` is symlinked to
> `busybox`.
So initramfs does not use systemd. This makes things even furhter from upstream, and more suitable for the distribution bugtracker.

Comment 6 Lennart Poettering 2015-02-04 16:17:32 UTC

Plese contact the Parabola developers about this, I am not sure we can do anything about this upstream.

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