[Solved] New mkinitcpio: consolefont error

jasonwryan · 2012-12-02 03:53:05

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?

falconindy · 2012-12-02 04:27:16

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.

jasonwryan · 2012-12-02 04:44:26

Thanks falconindy.

sl1pkn07 · 2012-12-02 05:12:43

"Replace any and all of the deprecated hooks"

for example?

greetings

jasonwryan · 2012-12-02 05:47:03

See https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail … 03426.html

falconindy · 2012-12-02 15:39:08

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'

sl1pkn07 · 2012-12-02 16:14:07

thanks

Rasi · 2012-12-02 22:52:05

that pacman message really is not helpful at all

tomk · 2012-12-02 23:10:14

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?

falconindy · 2012-12-02 23:32:21

  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?

jasonwryan · 2012-12-02 23:59:20

Yes.

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[Solved] New mkinitcpio: consolefont error

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