Bug 39863 – sys-apps/baselayout: /etc/init.consolefont: only applies font to vts 1-10

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Ed Catmur 2004-01-30 03:48:37 UTC]

Splitting this off from bug 37596 which was originally a complaint about 
console-tools being masked.

I agree with the solution proposed in bug 37596, comment 5 to use shell globs to 
apply the consolefont to all available vts.

[Comment 1 ferret 2004-01-30 12:03:59 UTC]

I have had this slight alteration on my box for a long time, with bootsplash,
consolefont and numlock init scripts. It's handy, but the problem is that it adds
a significant amount of time to the boot process, especially on slower systems.

Perhaps another way of doing it would be some /etc/init.d/functions.sh function
that parses /etc/inittab, using that to work out how may terminals are likely to
exist.

[Comment 2 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) 2004-02-02 10:04:06 UTC]

IMO inittab won't do the trick. On my system it only mentions vcs 1-6. I use vcs 10 and 11 for logging (and, of course, I want the corrent font to be set on these consoles :)). How big an amount of time are we talking here about? Is it more like 0.5s or more like 5s or perhaps even 50s? 

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2004-02-15 12:00:02 UTC]

It does not mean that if there are 15 tty nodes in /dev, that there are so many 
consoles, or that the user uses them.  I instead made the following change:

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Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.318
diff -u -r1.318 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog   9 Feb 2004 18:40:42 -0000       1.318
+++ ChangeLog   15 Feb 2004 19:59:18 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 # ChangeLog for Gentoo Linux System Intialization ("rc") scripts
-# Copyright 2002-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL
+# Copyright 2002-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL
 # Written by Daniel Robbins ([e-mail])
  
+  15 Feb 2004; Martin Schlemmer <[e-mail]>:
+
+    Add RC_TTY_NUMBER to /etc/conf.d/rc to configure how many tty devices
+    are used in scripts such as consolefonts, numlock, etc.  This should
+    close bug #39863.
+
   09 Feb 2004; Martin Schlemmer <[e-mail]>:
  
     Add SELinux modifications to /sbin/runscript.  This allows runscript to
Index: etc/conf.d/rc
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/conf.d/rc,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 rc
--- etc/conf.d/rc       4 Aug 2003 19:19:40 -0000       1.11
+++ etc/conf.d/rc       15 Feb 2004 19:59:18 -0000
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
 # NOTE: most of these are not in use yet!!
 #
  
+
+# This is the amount of tty's used in most of the rc-scripts (like
+# consolefont, numlock, etc
+
+RC_TTY_NUMBER=11
+
 # Set to "yes" if you want the rc system to try and start services
 # in parallel for slight speed improvement.
  
Index: init.d/consolefont
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/init.d/consolefont,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -r1.20 consolefont
--- init.d/consolefont  8 Feb 2004 11:07:45 -0000       1.20
+++ init.d/consolefont  15 Feb 2004 19:59:18 -0000
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
                                        sf_param="-C "
                                fi
  
-                               for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
+                               for x in $(seq 1 "${RC_TTY_NUMBER}")
                                do
                                        # Using DEVFS ?
                                        if [ -e /dev/.devfsd ] || \
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
  
                if [ "${retval}" -eq 0 ]
                then
-                       for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
+                       for x in $(seq 1 "${RC_TTY_NUMBER}")
                        do
                                # Using DEVFS ?
                                if [ -e /dev/.devfsd ] || \
Index: init.d/numlock
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/init.d/numlock,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 numlock
--- init.d/numlock      26 Dec 2003 00:25:24 -0000      1.8
+++ init.d/numlock      15 Feb 2004 19:59:18 -0000
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  
 start() {
        ebegin "Enabling numlock on ttys"
-       for tty in $(seq 1 11)
+       for tty in $(seq 1 "${RC_TTY_NUMBER}")
        do
                if [ -e /dev/.devfsd ] || \
                   [ -e /dev/.udev -a -d /dev/vc ]
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
  
 stop() {
        ebegin "Disabling numlock on ttys"
-       for tty in $(seq 1 11)
+       for tty in $(seq 1 "${RC_TTY_NUMBER}")
        do
                if [ -e /dev/.devfsd ] || \
                   [ -e /dev/.udev -a -d /dev/vc ]
Index: sbin/functions.sh
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/sbin/functions.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.48
diff -u -r1.48 functions.sh
--- sbin/functions.sh   8 Feb 2004 11:42:21 -0000       1.48
+++ sbin/functions.sh   15 Feb 2004 19:59:18 -0000
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #
 # Default values for rc system
 #
+RC_TTY_NUMBER=11
 RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="no"
 RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="no"
 RC_USE_CONFIG_PROFILE="yes"