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Laertes

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From: Munich

Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 66

Cannot find default font

Hi,

When booting I can see the message "Cannot find default font" just below the Arch logo. Nevertheless everything works fine afterwards but it's an annoying message that started appearing just a few days ago after I changed the consolefont in rc.conf to lat10. Can anyone help me to get rid of it?

Thanks

luca

Member

From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: Cannot find default font

Hi Laertes,
maybe the name of the font in /etc/rc.conf is wrong.
See in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/ for the right name
Also notice that in /etc/rc.conf you must specify the font name
without extension (.psfu.gz). Eg:

CONSOLEFONT="ter-114n"

Laertes

Member

From: Munich

Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 66

Re: Cannot find default font

I also thought that that was the problem, but my rc.conf is right:

LOCALE="es_ES.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Madrid"
KEYMAP=es
CONSOLEFONT=lat0-16
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

I have another computer with the same settings and the message does not appear.

luca

Member

From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: Cannot find default font

Try to change the font directly in console (as root):

setfont lat0-16

and see what happens

bangkok_manouel

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From: indicates a starting point

Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: Cannot find default font

what about the "" ?

Laertes

Member

From: Munich

Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 66

Re: Cannot find default font

Solved! It seems that the problem was the missing quotation marks, though in my other computer it works fine without them. Thank you all for your help.