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#1 2012-12-02 03:53:05

jasonwryan
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[Solved] New mkinitcpio: consolefont error

mkinitcpio 0.12.0 introduces some changes; notably the block hook.

When I regenerated my initrd after having replaced sata with block, it threw a new error:

  -> Running build hook: [consolefont]
==> WARNING: consolefont: no font found in configuration

I set the consolefont in /etc/vconsole.conf, like so:

FONT=ter-116n
KEYMAP=/etc/caps2escape.kmap

This has worked since moving to systemd, is there something else that is required with the new mkinitcpio hooks, or has this change exposed some shortcoming in my setup?


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#2 2012-12-02 04:27:16

falconindy
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Re: [Solved] New mkinitcpio: consolefont error

Unrelated to the block hook changes, of course.

sed -i 's/CONSOLEFONT/FONT/' /lib/initcpio/install/consolefont

I'll fix it for 0.12.1. Thanks.

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#3 2012-12-02 04:44:26

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Re: [Solved] New mkinitcpio: consolefont error

Thanks falconindy.


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#4 2012-12-02 05:12:43

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Re: [Solved] New mkinitcpio: consolefont error

"Replace any and all of the deprecated hooks"

for example?

greetings

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#5 2012-12-02 05:47:03

jasonwryan
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Re: [Solved] New mkinitcpio: consolefont error


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#6 2012-12-02 15:39:08

falconindy
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Re: [Solved] New mkinitcpio: consolefont error

And more generally, 'mkinitcpio -L' will show you what hooks are deprecated:

$ mkinitcpio -L
==> Available hooks
autodetect	consolefont	keymap		mmc¹		sata¹		strip		usb¹
base		filesystems	mdadm		modconf		scsi¹		timestamp	usr
block		fsck		mdadm_udev	pata¹		shutdown	udev		virtio¹
btrfs		fw¹		memdisk		resume		sleep		usbinput

¹ This hook is deprecated in favor of 'block'

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#7 2012-12-02 16:14:07

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Re: [Solved] New mkinitcpio: consolefont error

thanks

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#8 2012-12-02 22:52:05

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Re: [Solved] New mkinitcpio: consolefont error

that pacman message really is not helpful at all smile


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#9 2012-12-02 23:10:14

tomk
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Re: [Solved] New mkinitcpio: consolefont error

As you're here, falconindy, don't forget to close this - same issue, I posted it this morning.

And yeah, I agree with sl1pkn07 and Rasi - the post-install message assumes we know what hooks have been deprecated, couldn't it just tell us?

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#10 2012-12-02 23:32:21

falconindy
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Re: [Solved] New mkinitcpio: consolefont error

  if [ "$(vercmp 0.12.0 "$2")" -eq 1 ]; then
    printf '==> The "block" hook has replaced several hooks:\n'
    printf '       fw, sata, pata, scsi, virtio, mmc, usb\n'
    printf '    Replace any and all of these in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf with a single\n'
    printf '    instance of the "block" hook\n'
  fi

Better?

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#11 2012-12-02 23:59:20

jasonwryan
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Re: [Solved] New mkinitcpio: consolefont error

Yes. smile


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