> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 10:36:10AM +0000, niya levi via arch-general wrote: > >/> hi everyone />/> after an install following the wiki installation guide > >and rebooting />/> the login screen shows unreadable characters, />/> the > >char displays as rectangular and square blocks, />/> locale.conf is set to > >LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 />/> vconsole.conf is set to KEYMAP=uk />/> i also tried > >adding a FONT= line to vconsole.conf while chrooted the > but />/> no joy after rebooting, />/> the installation screen was fine. />/> > any ideas ? />//>/> ---- On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:08:06 +0100 Ralf > Mardorf<silver.bullet > at zoho.com />/> <https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general>> wrote > ---- />/> > Which login screen? />/> > />/> > A display manager's greeter? If > so, xorg.conf or display manager > settings might solve the issue. />/> />/> Oops, I was confusing keyboard with > fonts. Not xorg.conf, but much > likely the display manager configuration provides to chose a font. />/> />/> > > />/> > Or tty? />/> > />/sorry i mean the login at the console, />//>/it a > file server without xorg, display manger etc. />//>/shadrock / > Did you customize /etc/locale.gen and ran locale-gen? > > Cheers, > -- > Leonid Isaev
yes in locale.gen i uncommented the following and ran locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8 locale.conf has lang=en_GB.UTF-8 vconsole.conf has KEYMAP=uk when booting it gets past the grub stage it print booting linux then loading ramdisk then the whatever follows displays unreadable block character. shadrock
