Bug 875666

Summary:	ncurses is hosed in text installations
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jcheung, them4z, werner
Version:	13.2 Milestone 0
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Description Stephan Kulow 2014-04-29 13:41:12 UTC

https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/1871/modules/yast2_lan/steps/1 shows a problem that's reproducible also outside of openQA, but leaving me puzzled what it's about.

For some reason the console font setup is missing if you do a text installation - but will work if you boot into X and then switch to text console.

Assigning to werner because he will have a better chance to ask the right questions than the screening team ;)

Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2014-04-29 13:45:01 UTC

note that the live cd looks similiarly bad: https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/1870/modules/yast2_lan/steps/3

Comment 2 Dr. Werner Fink 2014-04-29 13:46:48 UTC

The ncurses maintainer is not suitable for wrong terminal and/or font settings

Comment 3 Dr. Werner Fink 2014-04-29 13:49:59 UTC

IMHO the virtual linux consoles are not configured.  Make sure that plymouth is stopped and then configure the virtual consoles.  If plymouth is not stopped any configuration is for /dev/null

Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2014-04-29 14:50:37 UTC

HAH! plymouth might be a good tip - because it's not installed. Possibly we actually *require* plymouth to run

Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2014-05-13 08:31:44 UTC

we know now - the kernel loses the font mapping when switching to cirrus fb. 3.15 fixes that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 875687 ***