On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 03:48:16PM +0200, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > Hello. > > We found a strange issue with non-US keymaps. If the kbd-legacy > package is not installed (not installed on F34 by default[1]), the > system will hang on boot due to the "Failed to start Setup Virtual > Console"[2] error.
systemd-vconsole-setup fails if it cannot load the specified font and keymap. But that by itself should not cause a "hang" or stop the boot, because services have a Wants= (not Requires=) dependency on systemd-vconsole-setup.service. The only exception I see is dracut-cmdline-ask.service, which specifies Requires=systemd-vconsole-setup.service. The log snippet that is provided in the bug does not contain enough context to confirm that the failure is in the initramfs phase, but that seems very likely. (Please attach full boot logs in general for such bugs, it makes it easier to resolve them without unnecessary back-and-forth.) I think we should do three changes here: dracut units should be changed to not use Requires, and this will allow the boot to continue (albeit with the wrong keymap, which might cause problems if you're trying to input a decryption phase). Anaconda should pull in kbd-legacy (I think this might be done already, this is not the first time this bug is discovered). But also should change systemd-vconsole-setup to continue if the keymap cannot be loaded and load the font at least. It seems better to have the font loaded, even if you don't have the keymap, so at least you can *see* that wrong characters are being typed. The final exit value should still be failure, because the important job of the service wasn't done successfully, so this will not help with your problem, but it'll make the system a bit nicer. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
