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Bug 354793

Summary: sys-apps/openrc-0.7.0 doesn't set unicode mode immediately at boot without consolefont
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Sebastian Thorarensen <sebth>
Component: [OLD] baselayoutAssignee: OpenRC Team <openrc>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: galtgendo
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: Patch that makes init.d/termencoding set the unicode flag instead of init.d/consolefont

Description Sebastian Thorarensen 2011-02-13 22:00:03 UTC 
If you use the dmcrypt init-script to decrypt a partition at boot time, and use a passkey with unicode characters, then the console termencoding must be set to unicode before the dm-crypt init-script executes, or else the passkey won't match when entered. This is taken care of by /lib/rc/sh/init-early.sh and the /lib/rc/console/unicode flag.

The problem is that /lib/rc/console/unicode is set by the consolefont init-script. If you don't use consolefont, then the console won't be set to unicode until the termencoding init-script is run, and that is after dmcrypt. Entering the passkey at boot time will fail in this scenario.

Making the termencoding init-script set /lib/rc/console/unicode instead of the consolefont init-script, fixes this issue. Imho it also makes more sense to have it that way.
Comment 1 Sebastian Thorarensen 2011-02-13 22:01:19 UTC 
Created attachment 262393 [details, diff]
Patch that makes init.d/termencoding set the unicode flag instead of init.d/consolefont