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Bug 48010

Summary: baselayout-1.8.6.13: init.d/consolefont error without devfs
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Thomas Eckert <eckert.thomas>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Thomas Eckert 2004-04-16 00:41:44 UTC
without devfs (on amd64 in this case) /etc/init.d/consolefont does not work due
to a typo. The superfluous "-" is deleted by the following micro-patch:
--- snipp ---
--- consolefont.org     2004-04-14 04:34:14.000000000 +0200
+++ consolefont 2004-04-16 00:36:38.000000000 +0200
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
                                                retval=$?
                                        else
                                                /bin/setfont ${CONSOLEFONT} ${param} \
-                                                       -${sf_param}/dev/tty${x} >/dev/null
+                                                       ${sf_param}/dev/tty${x} >/dev/null
                                                retval=$?
                                        fi
                                done
--- snapp ---


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
boot without devfs-kernel and see help-messages from setfont printed to boot-
console
Comment 1 Thomas Eckert 2004-04-19 00:46:39 UTC
it's fixed already in 1.8.11 -> resolved.