Package: console-setup Version: 1.185 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I copied linux from a 20-yr old disk to a brand new one 100 times as large in GB. But what I copied is only 2-3 years old so I updated it using aptitude and have several problems, one of which I'll describe here. The old disk used sysvinit and the large font got installed ok on boot. But now I use systemd and get only a tiny font at login. Once logged in as root I can type "setupcon" and all is Ok. With journalctl I checked what console-setup.service did at boot. It ran twice. one sec. apart and Starting and Started console font and keymap. But no change in fonts. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages console-setup depends on: ii console-setup-linux 1.185 ii debconf 1.5.69 ii keyboard-configuration 1.185 ii xkb-data 2.23.1-1 console-setup recommends no packages. Versions of packages console-setup suggests: ii locales 2.27-6 ii lsb-base 9.20170808 Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on: ii debconf 1.5.69 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-3+b3 Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.54 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59.10 ii kbd 2.0.4-4 ii keyboard-configuration 1.185 console-setup-linux suggests no packages. Versions of packages console-setup is related to: ii console-common 0.7.90 ii console-data 2:1.12-6 pn console-tools <none> pn gnome-control-center <none> ii kbd 2.0.4-4 ii systemd 239-8 -- debconf information: * keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 104-key PC keyboard-configuration/optionscode: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,lv3:rwin_switch_latch,grp:lwin_toggle,me:you * keyboard-configuration/variant: English (US) keyboard-configuration/layout: console-setup/codesetcode: Uni3 debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title: console-setup/use_system_font: * keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true keyboard-configuration/other: console-setup/guess_font: * console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 16x32 (framebuffer only) keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: us,us keyboard-configuration/toggle: Left Logo key keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc104 console-setup/framebuffer_only: * console-setup/fontface47: Terminus keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true * keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true keyboard-configuration/variantcode: basic,rus console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true * console-setup/codeset47: . Combined - Latin; Slavic and non-Slavic Cyrillic console-setup/fontsize: 16x32 console-setup/fontsize-text47: 16x32 (framebuffer only) keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: us * console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8 * keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout * keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true * keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: true