Bug 51941 – can't load consolefont during startup

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jan Brezina 2004-05-24 13:14:33 UTC]

By debug listing I descover folloving problem:
consolefont is started from /etc/runlevels/boot and font is loaded
then hotplug from /etc/runlevels/default cause screen restart and this destroy
loaded font
I move consolefont script to /etc/runlevels/default and all is OK now
But I don't know what determinate the order of starting services.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. rc-update add consolefont boot
2. rc-update add hotplug default
3.

Actual Results:  
After reboot console font selected in rc.conf isn't set.

Expected Results:  
Console font should be set.

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10
Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.25-gentoo-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.25-gentoo-r2 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes)
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2
/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/
config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://212.219.247.15/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.2
19.247.16/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.12/sites/www.ibiblio.
org/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm g
tk imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis
opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl
svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-05-25 05:42:52 UTC]

shouldnt hotplug be a boot service ?

[Comment 2 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2004-06-04 15:14:20 UTC]

Why would it need to be?

I don't like it as a service at all :)

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-10-15 22:49:16 UTC]

greg knows all about hotplug :)

[Comment 4 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2004-11-10 11:29:51 UTC]

Hotplug isn't a "service" anymore, so closing this as it can't possibly
be a hotplug issue.