Terminal text corruption during boot

awh · 2012-08-18 17:53:01

I'm having a weird problem where during boot, text in the tty gets garbled up for a period, keeps garbling, then returns to normal.
As soon as the garbling begins, the colours change to be a little darker, too.
I don't see any noticeable side effects to this, it's just a little weird for it to be happening.
I'm currently using systemd, but this problem was happening before on initscripts too (before I recently upgraded).

Here's some images to better convey what's happening:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28215761/misc/ … inits1.jpg
Corruption started directly after this line.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28215761/misc/ … inits2.jpg
And finished at this one.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28215761/misc/ … inits3.jpg

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28215761/misc/ … /sysd1.jpg
(just slow shutter speed here, text didn't overlap)

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28215761/misc/ … /sysd2.jpg

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28215761/misc/ … /sysd3.jpg

Is this some sort of font/encoding problem?

Thanks!

Moderator edit: Images were far too big. Reduced to their urls. See below. -- bernarcher

Last edited by bernarcher (2012-08-18 19:46:27)

loafer · 2012-08-18 18:38:55

What is in /etc/locale

awh · 2012-08-18 18:42:02

Not sure if you mean locale.conf or locale.gen, so,

locale.conf is:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C

and locale.gen is

en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_GB ISO-8859-1

bernarcher · 2012-08-18 19:51:17

awh, welcome to the forums.

Please read our forum etiquette esp. section "7 Pasting Pictures and Code". You may alaso want to have a look at the screenshot posting rules for additional info.

BTW, the [ quote ] tags around those illustrations were unnecessary in this case. I did remove them as well.

loafer · 2012-08-18 20:05:28

What does locale show?

DSpider · 2012-08-18 20:13:39

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=146529

awh · 2012-08-18 21:52:00

bernarcher wrote:

awh, welcome to the forums.
Please read our forum etiquette esp. section "7 Pasting Pictures and Code". You may alaso want to have a look at the screenshot posting rules for additional info.
BTW, the [ quote ] tags around those illustrations were unnecessary in this case. I did remove them as well.

I manually resized the pictures by like 90% already, thought that was enough, sorry! Thought the [ quote ] tags might make the box scrollable, too.

DSpider wrote:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=146529

Thanks, using Nouveau with early start has seemed to have worked (was previously using nvidia). My Google-fu is weak.
Curiously, I just noticed from pacman logs, I actually had Nouveau and nvidia installed together, which is weird, since I've never installed Nouveau before. :S

Last edited by awh (2012-08-18 21:55:46)

falconindy · 2012-08-18 22:17:38

Set a font in /etc/vconsole.conf.

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#1 2012-08-18 17:53:01

Terminal text corruption during boot

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Re: Terminal text corruption during boot

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